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"What do you mean?" Naida blinked as she paused in her unknotting.

It was probably a bit more difficult concept for her to understand. The question sounded to her, like something Shiro would ask.


Lin resisted the urge to roll her eyes, "And I would never tell her what to do because she's not married. It has nothing to do with her marriage status..."

But everything to do with her duty, Lin hated to think in terms of bloodlines but if anything happened to Wren, what were the chances of another heir? Elves were very emotional people, her father couldn't just marry just to have an heir could he? She doubted it.

"But she would pull out the grown woman thing, and I wouldn't be able to disagree with it."

Even if she thought it was irresponsible, but that was probably pot calling kettle black since she was taking her children along. If she really felt strongly, she wouldn't go at all.

"Really, I more expect her to pull out the argument that we're taking Andarien and Miyuki along, because really in the face of that I really can't argue with her."

Lin looked back at him, "I have no intention in getting into an argument with her. If she wants to come, she'll come. It's not worth it and I wasn't going to push it."

Yes, it sounded like she was going to, but it didn't mean she didn't think Wren was going to immediately protest just from the advice. She didn't know Wren enough, but knew Wren had to really fight for whatever freedom she had.

"It doesn't stop me however from worrying, about everyone. Not just her."

This was the only time she was going to admit, that even for them she was having second thoughts. It wasn't just about them, it was about the people coming with them.


Naida shook her head and verbally expressed it as well, "No, I haven't. I've only heard about it after the fact."

And her Aunt use to keep them as decoration until she packed them all up when she left for traveling.

"That's okay," Naida giggled, "That's what happens when you have long hair."

She should know, her hair was quite long, though not as long as some. Besides she liked playing with hair, it was something she had gotten from her own mother. It happened to Naida too, but oddly enough she didn't do her hair up anywhere near as much as other people.


Lin leaned into his touch and sighed. She could tell she had vexed him once again. Sometimes he read too much into her actions, or maybe it was a culture thing she didn't know. Maybe it was just a her thing.

"Thank you," she reached up and ruffled his hair, "And sorry for vexing you again. I'll be clearer with my intentions next time eh?"

Though if they couldn't leave until they found a guide at least they would be here for a while.

Lin laughed as she hugged Andarien, "Andarien! Miss us?"

It was strange not seeing him as much as they normally did. Actually it was kind of strange not seeing both her children like she normally did. While sometimes, Miyuki went with them into the city, most of the time she was in lessons or for some reason or another off with River and Jess. Rumour had it she was working with Jess on something, but what it could be she had no idea.

Miyuki, also came into the house, but from the yard. In one hand she held a seemly empty bag with many pockets and in the other she held a scroll that had a seal on it. Both were experiments of hers. The first, was of course her experimental bag, which wasn't as hard as she had feared. It was simply isolating the different runes and putting them in their proper places. It helped that Jess was experimenting himself, so she didn't have to worry as much on messing up the process.

The other, the scroll was an experiment in a security rune. A weaker version of her chain runes coupled something to ensure only she could open it. It was held closed with a leather strap and buckle because that is where she wanted to put that security run on. The strap allowed her to "decorate" it with a chain rune and where the bucket would clasp on, would be where the security rune held. It was weak because the chains were only meant for one person (the person trying to open the bag), but she figured just the action of it would scare most people off.

She hoped, she knew some people weren't that bright.

Unfortunately she could only currently key it to herself using blood (which was ew of her on so many levels), and more unfortunately she needed to ask someone to try it out. She would see after lunch, maybe ada was willing to give that a go.

The bag however, she liked and wanted to show Andarien, because he had tools and odds and ends. Maybe he would like a real one.

Lin beamed widely at this, "That is good to know."

And prideful of the fact she wasn't quite surprised by this. It was Andarien's love in life (in terms of what he wanted to do).

Miyuki waved at her brother, "Hey, I have something to show you after dinner."

She carefully set the bag and scroll aside, since they were being told to get settled. She hadn't realized so much time had passed, and since she planned to show Andarien the bag, she set it where she could get to it later with the sealed scroll on top.

Miyuki followed everyone else in but stayed close to her brother.

"Of sorts, it's a style found in this country, or at least around here. Jess made it because he wanted to try some new techniques, and he's letting me have his experiments to try my experiments on. I wanted to show you, I think you'll find it more useful."

Well, so would she, but she thought Andarien would like it too.

"Yea," Miyuki nodded, "That bag also has inside pockets so those pockets have been runed as well. I thought it would be a good place to keep weapons in so if there are weapons you have packed away you don't have to go rummaging around for them... actually there's a lot I'd rather not go rummaging around for..."

Now that she thought about it, really the only thing she would want to rummage around for, are for clothes.

"The last bit I was hoping for are runes to prevent people from getting into your bag, but that one is... a bit harder, because well... if they really wanted into your bag they could cut it open and I don't think there's a way to prevent that..."

She wished there was, but there was only so much she could do in that regard. Her thoughts were distracted by hearing there was another guest.

"Who's coming?" Miyuki asked curious.

While no one in Lin's family ever dressed like that, she had been in a normal school long enough to have the (mis)fortunate of seeing girls dressed somewhat like that. Granted, Lin had to admit, a miniskirt had nothing on that skirt, and only a bra would have had them barred from school. So she had to stare a bit, but wasn't as floored as her husband and son.

Miyuki's reasoning though took the cake. She had to admit, she never had seen anyone dressed like this woman. However, she reasoned that maybe it was just the culture, after all mermaids didn't wear a lot. Though, she had to admit, if one didn't include the tails, mermaids technically wore more than this woman.

Granted her thoughts were more geared towards how the woman was not cold (maybe she was like the mers), rather than the amount of skin that was showing. Well that and she was wondering what she had been through to have so many scars.