Welcome to Gaia! ::

Celebor didn't need a second invitation - he whipped the door of the portal open and dashed through without waiting for anyone else.

Elnara sighed, then picked up Storm and Starr. She let Serenity and Skye go into the portal first, and was about to follow them when she saw Lin standing and looking very small and lonely. Without a word, she shifted Storm and Starr to the same shoulder, then knelt down and picked up Lin.

"No sense in having you fall behind," she murmured as she straightened once more. Her eyes met Lore's one last time, and she smiled bravely, though she felt far from brave, then stepped into the portal.

Holding Idhril, Lore followed shortly after them into a place he did not know how to describe. He was use to buildings, but he hadn't been in a castle for a very long time, and it seemed so... old compared to back home in Gaia. Though he was sure it probably wasn't as old as he thought, it was just association.

Unfortunately for poor Serenity, it wasn't Earendil who was wandering the labyrinth at this time of the afternoon - it was his younger sister, Tinuviel. Normally she would be in lessons with Sir Valdemar, but today he had something else to do.

Not that she minded, she needed a break from her studies every once in a while. She was eighteen now, taller than most of the family, and as slim and graceful as she had ever been. Her hair had grown even longer now, and despite being bound still fell to her ankles.

She had been down in the labyrinth for a number of hours now, and she was startled to suddenly hear voices coming from somewhere deeper within the walls of the enormous maze. For a moment she panicked, wondering who could have found their way here - then she remembered the portal.

Did they have more visitors?

She activated her magic, phasing out, and started in the direction of the sounds, moving through the walls as if they weren't there.

Lore squeezed Elnara's hand in return lightly as he smiled, "That's interesting, almost like a code, one wouldn't realize it unless you were paying attention."

Very ingenious, then very few people would be able to get out unless they knew the history well and the language. Though he wasn't sure which threat was greater one's own people or outsiders. Afterall, he had experienced the former and only read about the latter.

She was definitely getting closer, she thought to herself as she moved through more and more walls. She didn't recognize any of the voices, though ...

Well, perhaps she would when she got a bit closer.

Moments later, she passed through the final wall to the hall that they were in and solidified herself. She had come out behind all of them - they were heading away from her. She took the opportunity to examine them all as she followed them noiselessly.

A raven-haired woman, a white-haired man, and a lot of children ...

Her eyes widened. She recognized two of them!

"Serenity!" she called out excitedly. "Lin!" And she started after them swiftly, still silent in her movements.

Lore nearly jumped out of his skin as he heard two of the girl's name echo through the hallway. He looked around him as it had startled him completley, he didn't reconigze the voice, and he knew how silent Elnara could be without trying.

"Who?"

Tinúviel stopped in her tracks as everyone turned around to face her and her expression transformed into one of extreme surprise as she stared at the raven-haired woman.

"Nako," she breathed; but no, it wasn't her grandmother. She was quite similar, but still different. She tried again. "Ada ... thêl?"

Lore's mind raced back to the meaning of words and it cleaned (as if it wasn't already obvious enough by appearance) that Elnara and Tinuviel were related.

"Ah..." he could hear Skye was still humming and in his fright he had forgotten she would not have heard that.

He turned to see she was still walking and backpedalled enough so he could reach out and tap Skye on the shoulders before she would walk off. Lore did not want to lose Skye in here.