tolkien100 | Comfort and Joy (Hobbits, rated PG)

I haven't drabbled in awhile, but here I go. For

tolkien_weekly's "Points" challenge, now past.

Title: Comfort and Joy
Author:

rubynye
Characters: two OC hobbits
Rating: PG
Source: Return of the King, a little while before the end of 3019.
Disclaimer: Middle-Earth is the Professor's, and the fulness thereof.

The Holes were cold and lonesome, stinking of confinement and fear, cell doors gaping ajar. Beri was just at the point of turning away, of declaring the place fit only to be stripped and filled in, buried and forgotten.

But he hefted his lantern once more; a bright dot gleamed in the dark. The lock gave easily to Dani's pickaxe, revealing a long tunnel stuffed brimming with barrels and boxes and all sorts of goods. Dani shot Beri a grin too joyful for words, as they knew all at once that Yule now wouldn't be bereft of comfort and good cheer.