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Lin's eyes lit up with pure joy and excitement, not only had Elros and Serenity come back but Daeron was with them. Darn it she should have brought Nina with her, oh well that would probably be a bad idea since Nina would have to stay in the house and she would then drive Haradhel crazy.

No... probably better not to have Nina.

"Look there they are! Shiro, Daeron's with them too, so you can talk to him too!"

She waved back.

At least it wasn't hard to explain who was who since the two were as differenet as night and day. In so many more ways than one as well.

"The tall blond man is Elros, and the other man with black hair is Daeron, Daeron... believe it or not is Ruel's son," she murmured softly to him, "So that makes him your cousin."

"Hello, Lin," Elros called out as the trio drew near. "It's wonderful to see you again. Sorry to have kept you waiting."

He chuckled softly, in an uncharacteristically good mood.

Serenity's eyes were dancing with excitement. "Elnara's here too, right?" she asked eagerly. "With all of the children?"

She looked down at Shiro and Ura brightly. "Lin, you have to introduce us - are these some of my grandsons?"

Daeron just held back a bit and grinned. He knew how anxious his grandmother was to meet the rest of her grandchildren, and he didn't want to interrupt.




Aliya smiled brightly at Feng. "I think it would be a lot of fun," she agreed excitedly. "Maybe if you come when Adonijah's a bit older we could go somewhere, on a trip or something! There's a lake town to the north that I've been wanting to see, or of course there's the coast or ... or anywhere, really!"

She looked down at the feeding infant once more, and giggled softly. "Though of course that requires that once Adonijah's big enough, we don't go having more children," she laughed.

Lin grinned she knew that it would be alright with these three! Of course it would be, Daeron was more or less use to odd things (can't get any odder than Nina) and Serenity knew better and so did Elros.

"This is Shiro," she pointed to her winged nephew, "And that is Ura, and yes they are Nara-sissy's kids, and I already told them about you before you go here so they know."

Serenity giggled and knelt next to her two grandsons.

"By the Valar, you two are adorable," she said warmly, reaching out and pulling both of them in for a hug. She squeezed them both briefly, then let them go again. "Shall we go in and see Elnara and the others?" she asked eagerly. "Or do you want to stay out here with the others?"

Daeron stepped forward now and grinned at Lin. "Welcome back," he told her cheerfully, squatting down so that he would be closer to her height. "I would imagine you must have seen my brother recently, have you? How is he?"



Aliya grinned impishly at Feng. "Never too old," she laughed. "The twins were three years old when we took them west, they were wonderful. Besides, the traveling itself is so tiring for them that we don't need to worry so much about them."

She giggled softly. "Adan got to ride his own horse the whole way," she told her friend, a little more softly. "He was so proud ... Amdir and I each had one of the twins ride with us. Though I suppose that if we did want to take all four children, we could get Aragost to come with us. He really is wonderful."

Lin thought about it, and she had seen Earendil, and it had been the same as usual. In fact they had played last time if she recalled correctly...

"He's doing good," Lin nodded, "We played and it was all fun. Are you here for a visit or here to stay?"

Serenity smiled at the boys, then rose to her feet again. "All right, I'll see you two later then," she said warmly; and with that, she waved to the others and dashed towards the house.

Daeron grinned at Lin. "To stay," he told her cheerfully. "At least for a while. I've done enough traveling for quite a while, and I think they could really use my help here. Besides, you were right. It was horrible of me not to know my cousins. Here I can help raise them a bit, the same way Uncle Elrohir helped to raise me and Earendil."

Elros chuckled softly. "Did you want to have more lessons right away, Lin?" he asked. "Or did you want to wait until tomorrow? Or, it is quite a lovely day, we could have your lessons outside and include Shiro and Ura, if they would like."

By looking at Shiro, he had a feeling that the demon neko was anxious to learn. He couldn't say why, it was just a feeling.



Aliya laughed again. "You should have seen him. You would have sworn he was a prince, the way he was riding! I mean ... he is," she added sheepishly, "but I mean he actually looked as if it meant something. Proud as a griffin, I swear it."

Beneath the blanket, Adonijah sneezed suddenly, and Aliya sighed softly and closed her shirt again, then draped the blanket over her shoulder and lifted him to her shoulder as well, patting his back once more.

Lin thought about it, there was still a good amount of day left to be honest. They could always have a quick lesson, and she was sure Shiro and Ura would like it. Well, it wash ard to tell what went through Ura's head, but she knew Shiro would like it.

"Yea! Let's have it out here," Lin grinned, "Shiro is learning too, but he can learn really fast and he's already using big words."

She paused for a moment before looking up at Daeron next.

"That's good, it's good to stay in one place sometimes, and best of all there are a lot of people here now. Also, Triton came this time, and Tao is with the twins at Aliya's place."