The forge has been given over to Will Turner, to Gimli's considerable satisfaction. That young human knows his business, and should go far if the Dwarf is any judge ( Read more... )

Will does not take any of the chocolate that appears at the bar along with his breakfast. Mostly because he doesn't have a sweet tooth, but also because he decidedly doesn't trust food given to him for no obvious reason ( Read more... )

Will had a busy day yesterday, to say the least, and he made a lot of discoveries. Not of them were particularly pleasant, but not having any idea where Elizabeth might be made it all worse ( Read more... )

The door opens, and River steps into the bar. She moves in slow, dancer's steps, silent and barefoot. She's wearing the long brown duster that was Roland's once, over a purple sundress that sways around her knees in floating layers ( Read more... )

River is sprawled on the floor of the bar, propped up on her elbows. Mal taught her to knit, once; she's trying again, with a fuzzy yarn flecked with orange and yellow.

Right now it involves a lot of scowling at the needles.

The yarn, as they say, is problematic.

Not that there isn't work in plenty to be done, but even a dwarf catches the urge to do something relaxing once in a while. Just at the moment that means supper in public, and a place by the fire in one of the easier chairs to climb ( Read more... )

There's been a lot of business lately for someone willing to work mithril rings or turn iron ore into axe-steel and sword steel. Gimli and his assistant, young Tom Jones, have been busy indeed. Tonight, however, the dwarf has some time away from the fires; thus, he is in the Bar for supper, and for the occasional curse at the blasted Man-sized

While Gimli deeply and truly appreciates the ingenuity of modern forms of plumbing, sometimes the more traditional ways of getting clean are called for after a hard day of work. Streams are good. So are lakes ( Read more... )

There's a young man pondering a coin ( Read more... )

One of the things to remember about River is that she's on a lot of medications. There's no one cocktail of drugs that her system won't eventually begin to break down; every so often the dosage of one or another has to be changed, or one drug switched for another ( Read more... )