I could see her writing something in a book, and so I willed myself to come down, floating into her room, making sure not to hit the tree that hung over it. I looked closer, and she was finishing an entry in her diary. She wrote to her mother.
I watched her quill dot the I in her name, and then she went to close the small book. But for some reason she stopped, and ran her fingers across the opposite page, letting me read the words. It was a final message to me. And her mother was the messenger.
~Naneth,
I need to give Kili a final message. I need you to tell him that I am happy. I need you to tell him that I will always love him as a friend, and that I will always love Lindir as my Beloved. I need you to tell him to stop watching me leave. Tell him to find a beautiful lady up there with him, and tell him that he needs to have a beautiful love like me. Tell him that I wish it.
Amin Mela Lle,
Tauriel~
That was good. She was happy. Without me. She had gone to that… Lindir. And I'm supposed to find a beautiful lady. In the stars, where I am alone. She was going to marry the elf, while I watched helpless.
I don't want a beautiful lady, I want Tauriel. It's too late to tell her, but it's true. She's let go. That was the last message.
Now, since there is only one thing holding me to the stars instead of continuing my journey, I will have to watch her get married, I will have to watch her create a new child, and I will have to watch her child grow up. I will watch the child with my runestone.
I will watch the runestone in the hands of an elf-child. The only bond to the earth on the ground. I will stay, watching, until all memory of me is gone. Until the stone cracks.
I want to continue. I know that I am the only dwarf, and probably elf and man too, that has stayed in the stars for this long. When I continue on, I will see Uncle Thorin, and Fili, and Dis. Just let me go, Tauriel.