"I'm not sure I will ever not be impressed by it," she confesses, watching him as he shakes sparks away from his skin and marveling at it despite the fact that she's seen him do it before.

"Oh, have you eaten? I could call for some things, if you like," she adds, indicating the little dangling rope at the side of the bed, the one that connects to a series of bells deeper within Meduseld, that will ring to alert the servants that the royal family needs something. Her grandmother had them installed when she came to Edoras, and they haven't been used much since her death, but they still work. She could ask for a place of meat and cheese and bread to be brought.