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Fili is alive.
It's all Kili had needed to hear to make him move, and he clutches his rune stone in his fist as he runs through the trees and back to that great expanse of green where he'd woken to those of the race of Men mulling about aimlessly, so unlike what he's doing now. Tauriel had offered an explanation, one that Kili isn't sure he understands because she speaks of a land he does not know, this Darrow that he's never heard of in any stories from his elders, and he'd been certain that she was only a dream, a figment of his own imagination sent to guide him to where he truly belongs, reunited with his brother in the Halls of Waiting until Arda is built again.
She had offered no guidance, at least not the sort he would have expected, but the moment Tauriel had told him she'd seen Fili here, Kili's heart had stopped as surely as if he'd been pierced by Bolg's stake all over again. Later, he might feel a sense of guilt at rushing away from her when she'd expressed such sorrow at seeing him again, both of them sure that the other couldn't be real, but Kili's greatest loyalty has always been to his brother and even in death, that could never change. The stone he holds in his hand had been given to him in exchange for a promise, that he'd return to his mother, and Kili had passed it on to Tauriel in hopes that in the end, both would promises would be fulfilled. He'd failed his mother but now, he makes a new promise, one to his brother that he will find him in this foreign place so that they can be together again. There's an emptiness in Kili, a void that had grown wider from the second he'd seen Fili fall, but the hope of finding his brother alive drives him forward.
Whether Erebor had been reclaimed, he cannot know, but if Kili has been given this chance, a chance to live again with his brother by his side, there is nothing he can do but whatever is in his power to take it. "Run!" Fili had cried, and so Kili does. He won't rest, he'll search every corner of this Darrow if he must, but if Fili is here as Tauriel says, Kili will find him.
It's all Kili had needed to hear to make him move, and he clutches his rune stone in his fist as he runs through the trees and back to that great expanse of green where he'd woken to those of the race of Men mulling about aimlessly, so unlike what he's doing now. Tauriel had offered an explanation, one that Kili isn't sure he understands because she speaks of a land he does not know, this Darrow that he's never heard of in any stories from his elders, and he'd been certain that she was only a dream, a figment of his own imagination sent to guide him to where he truly belongs, reunited with his brother in the Halls of Waiting until Arda is built again.
She had offered no guidance, at least not the sort he would have expected, but the moment Tauriel had told him she'd seen Fili here, Kili's heart had stopped as surely as if he'd been pierced by Bolg's stake all over again. Later, he might feel a sense of guilt at rushing away from her when she'd expressed such sorrow at seeing him again, both of them sure that the other couldn't be real, but Kili's greatest loyalty has always been to his brother and even in death, that could never change. The stone he holds in his hand had been given to him in exchange for a promise, that he'd return to his mother, and Kili had passed it on to Tauriel in hopes that in the end, both would promises would be fulfilled. He'd failed his mother but now, he makes a new promise, one to his brother that he will find him in this foreign place so that they can be together again. There's an emptiness in Kili, a void that had grown wider from the second he'd seen Fili fall, but the hope of finding his brother alive drives him forward.
Whether Erebor had been reclaimed, he cannot know, but if Kili has been given this chance, a chance to live again with his brother by his side, there is nothing he can do but whatever is in his power to take it. "Run!" Fili had cried, and so Kili does. He won't rest, he'll search every corner of this Darrow if he must, but if Fili is here as Tauriel says, Kili will find him.
