Stargazing

[shewhowalksinstarlight]

 Few things call to her as loudly as the stars, and she will always find the highest point to watch them from. Tonight simply happens to be a mountainside.

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[courage_of_youth]

She's not alone up there. He's already up there, though maybe for slightly different reasons. It doesn't matter what they are. When he spots a flash of red hair he forgets all about them and decides to try to move closer to see what the elf is up to. With all his dwarfish stealth.

[shewhowalksinstarlight]

Ah, yes. Dwarvish stealth. When she first hears it, she tenses and braces for some kind of attack, but she's becoming used to the sound of dwarves, and perhaps even to distinguish amongst them. But for the time, it is enough to know that it is a dwarf that follows her and not an orc.

As she settles down on a piece of bare rock, she waits for her company to make themselves known.

[courage_of_youth]

And he is blissful and thinks he's actually managed to close in undetected. He's not really sure what to say, though. What if he's interrupting something important that he shouldn't go near. Some elven ritual or something. Which of course makes him even more curious.

[shewhowalksinstarlight]

For a moment, she's completely lost in watching the stars above her, but the sight would be better shared.

"You cannot enjoy the view from the shadows."

[courage_of_youth]

Busted.

He comes over and drops down on a rock next to her. The plan is to try and stay on the same level.

Of course he smiles like he has no clue what she's talking about.

"When'd you show up? Didn't notice you."

[shewhowalksinstarlight]

"Indeed?" No, she's not buying it for a moment. "Here I thought I was alone out here."

[courage_of_youth]

"Even an elf can't always be right."

His smile is just going to grow wider.

[shewhowalksinstarlight]

"And I'm sure dwarves always are?"

[courage_of_youth]

"Being this close to the ground gives us a better view of things."

He says that with a serious face, but it still manages to not be fully serious. He doesn't really mean it.

[shewhowalksinstarlight]

He might not really mean it, but now she's curious. She knows all too well what Elves think of anything in particular, but she knows nothing of Dwarves except what Thranduil sneers. "What else do you see?"

[courage_of_youth]

"The little things. The things that may seem unimportant, but play a vital part in how the world unfolds."

[shewhowalksinstarlight]

"Elves are not known to overlook such things." She is well aware that Elves often overlook important things, especially those of her realm, but a certain amount of pride must be maintained.

[courage_of_youth]

"Of course. It must have slipped my mind that your kind are beyond flawless."

He's teasing, mostly, maybe being a little sarcastic about it, but then he looks at her and his smile, and tone, change.

"You're perfection."

[shewhowalksinstarlight]

She looks at him with this... face that says "I believe I heard a compliment, but I never receive true compliments, where am I missing the insult" but in the end, she still can't find the insult, and nearly blushes as she turns back to the stars.

"I have not known any Dwarven archers." She's not good at the compliment thing.

[courage_of_youth]

He shrugs, but smiles. "I like it. Patience and focus is needed when you want to work a bow, more so than swords and axes."

And those two things are exactly what he used to struggle with quite a bit as a child.

[shewhowalksinstarlight]

Only as a child?

"Who taught you?" She's so curious about him, about dwarves in general, and he's really the only one who isn't instantly "omg ew elf!!" And okay, maybe she'd come see him anyway, but it's always nice to have an excuse.