"Lady Brynhild, would you joins us in the garden for the mid-day feast?" Asked Balin as Daria and I walked back inside for a much deserved bath. Thorin stood a couple of steps behind as Balin started to walk with us, awaiting my answer.
"I would enjoy that very much." I answered. "Unfortunately Daria and I had arranged to go horse riding this afternoon."
"Nonsense my child, bring your friend and let us have a merry gathering, I'm sure we could find you an expert rider to take you out and about." I found it quite impossible to resist this man's charms, not sure if it was for his honesty and lack of secret on whatever he spoke to me, or if it was the way he talked to me as I was a member of his family.
They walked away as we reached our room, but it did not took me long to understand that it was no welcoming feast. Thorin failed to look away from the ring I had on my finger when he walked past me. You see, getting away from my story to tell you some lore, before Sauron forged the great rings, he and the elves forged practise rings, that later the elves destroy almost all, leaving only the rings who were given to the elves, the dwarves and men. Practise rings were quite dangerous, unless you knew how to control it and expect to deal with when it controlled you. Sauron did try to steal these rings, but the elves were quicker, unfortunately not faster then some slick hands that took the one I was wearing.
Magical rings have a particular things, in the wrong hands can do all kind sof harm, in the right ones it might attracted other rings, but mine conjured certain things I needed to obtain, Thorin, or someone close to him, must be wearing a ring, you can feel it drawing you near them, lately I had been feeling being drawn to certain places or certain people. Whoever was wearing a ring was nearby and was feeling the same, I only wondered what did the person's ring did.
The Dwarves were suspicious people, but for the reason I knew which (ring on my finger) they were quite pleasant to me. When Daria and I entered the grounds, Thorin sat with King Thrain, they mumbled something with each other, I only wanted someone to point where I could sit, Highborn do bring maiden, but I was not highborn and the maiden now belonged to my stepfather's daughters in law.
Thorin caught my eye and stood up quite quickly coming in our direction, he gave his arm to Daria, who started to melt inside and I could see her future in the mines. To me, he pointed to a little table a bit far from everyone else, under a shade, I walked there and saw there was a spectacular view, I sat down hoping to have someone to join me, perhaps Master Balin was to join me. To my dismay Thorin sat in front of me, causing me to hold myself long enough not to laugh. the poor thing chose very wrong his company. Then it became clear, he wanted only what I had, not me, so I could use this to my advantage.