He walked to another room while she waited in the larger room looking at the carvings in the wood. “Because you, yourself have not asked me.”
Balin gave her a sour look but she ignored him to stare into the stormy eyes of the King who had a face like stone. Pressure would be put on him from the other dwarf kingdoms to choose a dwarf woman regardless and when she presented him with the Arkenstone it would seal their fate. Her father – one of the warriors that had faught at the mountain- had found the stone in the fray and with a thought to secure his daughter a better position he hid the stone within the mountain. The gatekeeper and the armed guards all gave salutes as their small caravan left the city of Erebor passed them.
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