"What, this?" Kili asks, having already known very well that Fili would have noticed the blood almost immediately, his brother always does.
Even when Kili would come home after getting into fights as a dwarfling, trying to hide an altered gait or a split lip or a freshly bruised eye, Fili had been the first to notice. During the journey, too, Fili had been the one to stay closest to his side after he'd suffered the Morgul arrow to his leg; though, Kili thinks, it isn't often that he and his brother are very far apart in the first place.
"Merely a flesh wound," Kili continues, already lifting his tu"nic to get a better look at the cut. It's deeper than he'd initially imagined it to be and that alone makes him wince, let alone the fact that he seems to have managed to open the cut again by the way he's stretched his body to look at it. "Alright, perhaps not merely a flesh wound. It's possible that I may have run into a vampire while I was out. It's also possible that this vampire may have gotten hold of my blade while I wasn't looking and even more possible still that it did... well, this."
Kili flashes Fili another bright smile, hoping his brother will save any lectures he might be prone to give about going out on his own to hunt the creatures for after the bleeding at his side has stopped.
"You'll help me dress it, won't you, Fee? I'd prefer not get blood on your floor."
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Even when Kili would come home after getting into fights as a dwarfling, trying to hide an altered gait or a split lip or a freshly bruised eye, Fili had been the first to notice. During the journey, too, Fili had been the one to stay closest to his side after he'd suffered the Morgul arrow to his leg; though, Kili thinks, it isn't often that he and his brother are very far apart in the first place.
"Merely a flesh wound," Kili continues, already lifting his tu"nic to get a better look at the cut. It's deeper than he'd initially imagined it to be and that alone makes him wince, let alone the fact that he seems to have managed to open the cut again by the way he's stretched his body to look at it. "Alright, perhaps not merely a flesh wound. It's possible that I may have run into a vampire while I was out. It's also possible that this vampire may have gotten hold of my blade while I wasn't looking and even more possible still that it did... well, this."
Kili flashes Fili another bright smile, hoping his brother will save any lectures he might be prone to give about going out on his own to hunt the creatures for after the bleeding at his side has stopped.
"You'll help me dress it, won't you, Fee? I'd prefer not get blood on your floor."