"Oh, Kili," Beth says, shaking her head. "If she loves you, there's no way you can disappoint her. Before Daryl, there wasn't anyone. I had a couple boyfriends, but we didn't really do much of anything together, so with Daryl, everything was new. It was the same for me, I didn't know anything and I thought... I worried maybe I'd be bad at it, I wouldn't know what to do or what to even say, but it's just... I think it's different when you love someone. You get to figure it out without worrying that you're doin' somethin' wrong, because they don't care."

Right now she finds herself wishing she knew Tauriel better. She wishes she could tell Kili exactly what to expect, she wishes she could predict her reactions, but she can't. Kili knows Tauriel, though, and he loves her, so Beth has to assume she loves him, too. She has to assume that Tauriel is kind to him, that she cares for him, that she would never make him feel silly for not knowing something. And if what he's said is true, if being intimate in that manner is like being married for elves, then Beth has to assume she doesn't know either. It's going to be something they learn together and Beth thinks that could really be rather beautiful.

"It's okay if you don't know, if you gotta learn or even ask her questions," Beth promises. "It really is. You guys can learn it all together and when it happens that you're both ready for it, you'll know all sorts of things already. I promise you won't disappoint her, though. I don't see how you could, not if you love her."