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Elnara wasn't exactly sure how Idhril had managed to convince her that this was a good idea, but somehow she had, and after days of careful planning for her, Lore, and the twins to visit the Borderlands, they were no longer heading there alone. She only hoped she wouldn't regret agreeing to Idhril's proposal ... she'd heard stories of these two who were going to join them, and none of them had been pleasant.

She only hoped that Celebor would forgive her.

She was waiting with Lore and the twins in the portal room of the Winters manor for Idhril's return from the Seconds' world with two others she had met there: Corrah and Armus.

To say that she was nervous about this would be an understatement. She was terrified. She had never met these two before, and she had heard that they were not at all people persons. She kept a close eye on Garrick and Hana, nearly three years old by this time, so that if something happened when the others appeared, she could grab or defend them easily.

"She said she wouldn't be long," she murmured anxiously to Lore. "Has it been long?"

She was too nervous to pay attention at the moment to the passing of time. Every second felt like an eternity.

The door to the portal room opened as Kara pushed it open balancing her travel bag on one arm while holding Hope of the two young twins. It seemed like she was not going to able to make it through the door until a hand held it open. That hand was attached to one Donovan, who was holding the other twin Faith. The two were also going to visit the Borderlands.

Kara and her twins were the ones visiting technically, Donovan was willing to go on another hunt, even though Kara was trying to convince to stay for a visit.

It seemed that this was going to be a bit of a three ring circus because Lin was not the only child coming along. Miyu of course had decided to come along, but this time she was bringing Toshiro with her. As far as anyone knew Toshiro's growth was just stunted but he was doing while for a pint sized staff wielding, coffee drinking Second stuck as a child.

The giggling behind them, signaled of course Naida and the twins, who wanted to visit Aliya again. Naida since growing to a child had learned how to walk, but she rather swim... or rather fly. After hearing stories about flying fish, Naida decided she wanted to be one too. Unfortunately this meant a lot of falls harder than Feng and Ryu ever took but she seemed to enjoy herself.

"Are we missing anyone?" Donovan asked sarcastically.

Lore didn't know what to say, there was just something about the girl that struck him as blunt. The fact her male counterpart was just staring probably didn't help matters much.

Lore replied softly, "Idhril had been talking about the two of you."

That was really the only reason why they were here, because Idhril had spoken for them.

Idhril glared at Toshiro. "Be nice!" she frowned at him. "They're not bad."

"Idhril." Corrah's voice was deep and quiet. "Be calm."

Elnara sighed and turned to Donovan. "Idhril met Corrah and Armus in the Seconds World," she started quietly. "She got to talking to them, it seemed to her that they might like a place here, helping out with the ranch and the rescuing. I'm still not sure how she convinced me, but she did."

Corrah nodded, his hood lowering slightly. "Life in Naosho has no interest for us anymore. All we seek is the opportunity to do something useful."

Armus looked as though she wanted to speak, but she looked up at Corrah and sighed, clasping her hands behind her back.

Garrick, ever the adventurer, gave up on chasing his sister and ran up to Corrah. He giggled up at the dark man. "Suilad!" he beamed up at him. "Big!"

Corrah's hood tilted slightly as he looked down at the boy, but no sound came from him.

Elnara shrugged one shoulder. What could she say? She didn't exactly trust them either. "Garrick is usually a pretty good judge of character," she murmured, watching as the boy tried to play with Corrah.

Idhril looked around at everyone. "You're all being silly," she frowned. "They're perfectly nice if you're nice to them."

Armus threw her hands up in the air. "Someone gets it," she said, her tone amazed.

Corrah reached one hand out and put it on Armus's shoulder, quieting her without a word.

Lore sighed as he looked between his other in-laws and his daughter, it would seem that there was going to be quite the disagreement between the two parties.

"How about we go through the portal before too much time has passed," Lore suggested dipomatically.

While Miyu running off he had a feeling wasn't going to help their case, at least it gave them an excuse to go through.

Deciding to take on his own advice Lore picked up Hana and followed Elnara through the portal. He wished Idhril would come (since inviting the two along was her idea) but he wouldn't want to take her away from her daughter. Not when she promised to play games with her.

There was a light layer of snow on the ground in the Borderlands, and before they went any further Elnara reached into her bag and pulled out cloaks for the twins, herself, and Lore.

"I'm sure she knows where she's going by now," she murmured to Feng and Ryu. "She'll be fine. Besides, Aragost being who he is, he probably was expecting her and waiting to meet her or something."

She glanced at her husband, and then at the newcomers that they had brought with them. "This way," she nodded, and started off through the trees.

Corrah and Armus exchanged a glance. Neither of them had seen snow before, or experienced this sort of cold, but when Corrah lifted a corner of his cloak to offer her some warmth, she shook her head and instead followed after Elnara.