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Earendil grinned. "Do you remember when we played Stalking for the first time?" he asked her. "How the flower that I gave you lit up a trail for you to follow me? If you'd like I can leave a permanent trail that only the flowers will be able to show, and you can use the flowers to get through without getting lost."

"Well," Lore mused as he moved his hand from hers and wrapped his arm around hers instead, "Maybe we'll run into them. I do recall, Lin wanted to find Earendil first."

Earendil smiled broadly as they approached another wall. "Well then," he nodded, "when it comes time for you to leave, I'll leave a special trail, and we'll see if that works."

The question of course would be whether or not the trail would remain for the possible years between her visits - he knew for a fact that the trail he had first left for her, when they had first played Stalking, was long gone.

He held up one hand to the wall. His hand glowed blue, and a star appeared on a section of the wall that swung silently inwards. He stepped out into the bright sunlight and closed the wall behind himself.

He wasn't surprised to his mother just in front of him, painting yet another canvas, but he was a little surprised to see his cousin, Serenity, there as well.

"Hello," he said, his tone one of surprise.

Luthien looked up from her work and smiled. "Hello, Earendil. I see Lin's found you again." She waved. "Hello, Lin!"

"Good idea," Lore replied back, "Lead the way... since well..." he chuckled a bit looking around, "I don't know the way... it's so big. This place."

He was glad that she was willing to seek people out, even though that was the point of the visit, she had been so worried about coming before.

Luthien laughed at Lin as Earendil set all three of the children on the ground.

"I'm glad you finally have permission!" she giggled. "Did your father come this time as well? Or did you come with Elnara and Lore?"

Earendil blinked. "They were here already?"

Luthien nodded. "You just missed them. I think they went to wander around the castle and run into people at random. It's probably a good thing your father's still working, but dinner is going to be interesting, to say the least."

"Yes, well the point of a castle is to be big," Lore nodded, "And they hold a good amount of workshops among other things, I should not be surprised."

He followed her nodding at the fact that is where they were going to go, towards the stair tower.

"It does not make it any easier though."

"Because we have so many extra guests, of course!" Luthien laughed. She started painting again, long, broad strokes of pale blue mixed with white to imitate the desert sky.

"Perhaps if you do visit the Borderlands," she smiled, "Earendil might be there as well, visiting his grandmother."

Earendil grinned. He would love that.

"Oh yea..." Lin was so use to so many people she forgot that to people here there was a lot of new people.

Well, at least she thought everyone would have fun.

"Then everyone can meet Elnara and Lore and everyone."