Welcome to Gaia! ::

"She'll left out I think if we don't wait," Lore murmured thoughtfully.

Since he knew that she did seem to like to know things, and knowing what Elnara said would count as one of those things.

"Wait for me for what?" Seeker asked brightly, bouncing (almost literally) into the room. She slipped into the chair next to Lore, putting him between herself and Elnara, and grinned up at them. "Come on, what's everyone waiting for me for?"

Her long, black hair was still wet from her bath, and even braided it went down almost to her knees.

Lex chuckled and pushed out a chair for his wife to take a seat. "Elnara said that she has something to tell us," he told his granddaughter, grinning. "Something important, from the sounds of it."

Seeker's eyes grew wide and excited, and she turned back to Lore and Elnara. "Oooo I love interesting surprises!" she exclaimed, clapping her hands together. "What is it?"

Elnara felt herself warming under everyone's expectation.

"It's ... not really that huge," she murmured softly, "and really it mostly just concerns Gion and Nadya ..."

Nevertheless, she cleared her throat and said, "Like I told Lex, I have no interest in coming back here, other than for visits, and not just the plantation but Arda in general. Gaia is my home now, and will be for all of my foreseeable future. As such, the plantation means nothing to me except as the place where I spent my childhood and where I collected some of my fondest memories, the one place where my entire family lived happily. And ... because of that ... I don't want to be so irresponsible as to own the plantation from another world, leave others to do all of the work, and get all of the profit from it ... so ..."

She cleared her throat again. "I ... would like to give it to Gion and Nadya ... and if you need an official reason for it, consider it a very ... very late wedding present, to my favourite brother and my best friend."

Lore smiled at the looks on their faces, and the annoucement made sense really. He was just glad for them all to get good news like this. He slipped Elnara's hand into his own for just that moment.

Lore nodded, that sounded like a good idea and he let go of her hand. He waited for the others to start before he would, since it was only polite. Dinner went along smoothly, and Elnara's annoucement was the largest event at the time. Conversation was kept to light subjects, that was.. when Lore didn't have his ear chatted off.

He didn't mind really.

Lore helped get all the children together, and was watching them as they chattered about all sorts of things for their trip. It was a good trip, granted the atmosphere was very much improved when they got back to the castle by the fact Ruel had avoided them like the plague.

For once being avoided was a blessing.

Atalya was in the middle of saying good bye to everyone when Earendil ran into the room, panting hard as if he had just run a very long way.

"Hey Lin!" he called, spotting her and running over to her. He knelt in front of her, panting and grinning. "Yata ... I made it. Barely. Here." He cupped his hands between them. "Put your hands in mine ... palm up."

Lin blinked looking at his hands and then looking at him. She placed her tiny hands in his putting them palm up as requested.

"I hope you didn't have to run too far."