036: Fly
Fili's brother dreams he can fly.
Kili was always a little...strange, for a dwarf.
From the time he could chase after Fili, he was off beneath the green trees beyond their home, laughing and falling in the dirt and coming home with fistfuls of golden dandelions for Ama.
Kili loves the trees.
When he and Fili are a little older, they claim a great wizened oak in the orchard as their Lookout-Tree. Kili climbs to its top first. Fili copies him once, just to save face, but doesn't attempt it again.
When he turns twenty, Thorin shows him around the forge, but Kili later admits he hates every minute spent in the enclosed space.
At thirty, he doesn't take up a craft, but tells Fili he's been asking the Rangers for lessons with the bow. He wants to be an archer. He's terrified of what Thorin will think.
Other dwarves tunnel into the earth for their gems. Fili's brother climbs trees to get a better look at the stars.
Maybe it's strange, even elvish, but Kili never hears it. Fili makes sure of it.
"Sometimes," Kili admits when he and Fili have long outgrown their Lookout-Tree but sit up there anyway, "I dream I can fly."