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"Really?" Lin's eyes lit up, it meant adventure and fun.

Well that and she liked cool things like that.

"Yes!" she paused, "Please...."

Eandil chuckled and stopped halfway down the steps. He raised his empty hand and pointed it towards the wall, and a fiery blue dragon appeared on the wall. It opened, and he stepped inside, then closed the wall behind them. A red dragon appeared, circling itself slowly twice before fading into darkness.

"And ..."

He held up his free hand again, and a streak of fiery blue magic appeared just above his palm. It wove itself into a flower shape and solidified, but the glow remained, bright enough to light up the entire area of the passage that they were in. He grinned and held it out to Lin.

"Here," he told her. "I don't know if you still have the other one I made, or if it faded, but here's another one for you. Brighter, stronger."

"I brought it with me," Lin told hijm happily as she took it and held it up to light up the way, "It still glows... kind of."

It had faded a bit, but the flower still existed and she liked to have it out at night as she went to bed.

Earendil chuckled at all three of the children. "I'm glad to see that the magic lasts without me," he told Lin as he started down the steps. "I wasn't sure whether it would or not."

He was also happy she had brought it with her. He was fond of her, very fond, and he was happy that she loved her time here as much as she did.

"Maybe you can ask Mommy, or Yukito," Lin suggested to Storm and Starr, hoping to avoid an issue where they would use magic.

While Lin didn't feel responsible for them, and wasn't even sure if her Daddy could seal away their magicks, she knew how her Daddy could be. He could make it seem like he did, just because as one of the other siblings put it, he was a scary man like that. She would feel sorry for the twins if they were punished for breaking their promise. Besides, a Second without magic would be a sad thing indeed.

She looked back up at Earendil, "It does do things you don't expect doesn't it? Like that time it glowed in different colours depending on how far away you were!"

"Tall lady?" Earendil blinked. To be fair, there weren't many women around the castle in general - but it could easily be any one of the servant women. Of course, he also had no idea what sort of threads they were talking about.

He looked to Lin, and his expression, lit by the light of the flowers in Lin's hands, was confused. "What tall lady?" he asked her.





Atalya put one hand on Elnara's shoulder. "I wish I could stay with you," she said softly, apologetically, "but I have something that needs to be taken care of before dinner ... will you two be all right on your own?"

Her brow was furrowed slightly with worry.

Elnara nodded. "I'm sure we'll be fine," she assured her grandmother with a smile. "After all, I did live here once before."

Idhril giggled and made herself comfortable in Lore's arms once again. "Yay!" she clapped excitedly. "We're going to go exploring!"