Welcome to Gaia! ::

Earendil grinned as he opened the door that led belowdeck. "Her letters are so sweet. Though it would be more logical for her to keep a journal than write letters, I would imagine."

The corridor was narrow, and he let Lin walk in front of him, since there was no longer space for them to walk side by side.

"Have you tried pointing out to her that it would be a way for her to remember everything that happens to her in the future, when she might otherwise forget?" Earendil asked Lin, though he was sure she would have thought about it. "The threat of forgetting all the amazing experiences she's had ... like the crystal cavern last week ... how would anyone ever want to forget something like that?"

"At least she doesn't have to learn how to write in the Ancient Tongue," Earendil laughed, "since they don't have their own writing system, she can just use any of the others!"

He grinned at her in the darkness as they headed down the stairs to the next deck. "You should try getting her to write her journals in other languages. It would be good practice. Kaito does it. I don't mean different languages jumbled together like his, though," he added. "That wouldn't help her at all, I don't think."

"I don't think it's the letters Kaito jumbles," Earendil mused, "I think it's just he'll write different paragraphs in different languages, is all."

Not that it mattered, he supposed.

At the bottom of the stairs was the room that was normally Earendil's, but which for the next several months would belong to all three of them.

"And here we are," he smiled, motioning for Lin to lead the way in.

Earendil headed over to the bunk that he had always used - the one on the inside wall, just beside the door.

"I'll take this one," he told the others. "Closest to the door, so that way you two will have more privacy and less noise from people walking past."

The other two bunks were side by side on the outside wall, with the porthole between them. The one on the right was across from Earendil's bunk, the one on the left had an open space in front of it.

Earendil smiled. "Good. Then we should put our things away before we go up for something to eat."

He nodded at the storage space under the bunks. "Make sure to latch them when you're finished. Sometimes, the rocking of the ship will make it all fall out if you don't."

If their other room had been like this, he wouldn't be telling them any of this, but Lin's other room, the storage was completely different, and far more efficient.

It didn't take Earendil long to put his things away - he knew beforehand where they would be going, so he didn't have to think about it - and when he was finished, he turned to help Lin and Miyuki. Though it seemed that Lin had already finished as well.

"Need a hand?" he asked Miyuki, heading over to her and Lin.