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Adonai giggled and picked up his own pebble again, closing his fist tightly around it and tucking it under his arm to make it warm up more quickly.

"You 'tone biggah," he told her seriously, even though he was giggling, "you 'tone make moah wight."

Adonai giggled and checked on his own stone. It was glowing, but only just a little bit. Still, he was happy with it.

"I's pretty!" he told Cindy, jumping to his feet. "Come! 'Et's s'ow Nana!" He bounced a bit and ran off towards the house again.

Adonai pattered into the house shouting "Nana! Nana!"

He looked through the living room, then the kitchen, then all three of the bedrooms. Finally he came back to the living room, looking for Cindy again.

"Nana go?" he asked her perplexedly, blinking in confusion.

Adonai blinked and stared at Cindy uncomprehendingly.

"'Hin' 'a house?" he repeated curiously, scratching at his forehead, which was smudged with dirt from his earlier fall.

Ulani had finished with the dishes by now, and was just putting them back into the basket she always used to bring them back into the house when she saw Cindy leading Adonai out to her. Her first instinct was that something was wrong, and she stood slowly and faced them.

"Is everything all right?" she called out somewhat nervously as the two approached her.

Adonai giggled and held up his pebble to show his mother, then pointed at the one Cindy was holding in her hands.

"Cinee wike 'a g'ow'tone!" he told his mother cheerfully. "Pretty 'tones!"

Ulani laughed, she couldn't help it. "I see," she smiled. "So that's where he hid them."

She explained to Cindy, "He and Aliya and I used to go hunting for these stones around the river when he was younger, when Ulrich was gone sometimes. We ended up with ... quite a collection of them, and they disappeared one day."

She smiled. "You should feel honoured, he usually doesn't share his things willingly."

"To be fair," Ulani smiled, kneeling down to pick up her son and then straightening again, "English is his third language, so difficulties and misunderstandings really do have to be expected. Don't feel pressured to entertain him, if you have something else you'd like to do just go right ahead. If you have questions, would like some help or anything, I'm always happy to help as well."

"Ah, well, do you have any ideas, in general?" Ulani asked with a smile. "Is there anything you'd like to see? You entioned something about education ... anything you'd like to know about?"

Really the possiblities were endless - there was so much in the area that even Ulani was stil learning about - such as the glowstones, which she had never seen before Aliya had found the first one six years previous. On top of that there were a multitude of plants and animals that were fascinating, or there were, if all else failed and they were completely bored, the regular chores.