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He murmured to her, "Could she love me?" and brushed his fingers against hers.
She whispered back, "She could, though it would be dangerous."
He looked at her and with humor in his eyes even through his pain replied, "You would back down from dangerous?"
"Oh," she whispered earnestly, "I did not say that."
Tauriel was an elf; Kili was a dwarf. Two races at odds with each other, yet Kili could not help thinking of her and Tauriel could not help thinking of him. Their races would do anything to pull them apart no matter the consequences. Their fate was being held in their own intertwined hands.
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