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Lin grinned, "Yup, I like coming here and there are people here I like to be with."

Naturally of course, there were always people she was eager to interact with. She already had a list of people she did want to visit, which was the usual of course.

When Feng and Ryu entered the clearing, Ulani and Ulrich stopped their storytelling immediately, and waved back to the twins.

"Welcome back!" Ulani called out brightly. "Long time no see!"

The children had their backs to the visitors, but when their grandparents stopped telling the story, all three of them turned to see what was going on.

"FENG-CHAN!" Adanedhel shouted, jumping to his feet and running over to greet them. "RYU-KUN!"

He was as tall as Feng's chest now, and when he tackled her with a hug, it was around her chest and arms, pinning her arms to her sides as he ran into her at full force.

Adwin simply looked at the two of them quizzically, while Alyse shifted uneasily over to her grandparents and hid behind their legs, under the table.

"Heh!" Feng giggled as she hugged him back, she would have picked him up only he was kind of too big for that now, "Adanedhel! You've grown so big!"

She was still hugging him tightly. Ryu had to laugh at that as he looked over to the other two.

"I see Adan isn't the only one who has grown," Ryu commented.

"But even practicing is learning," Storm pointed out. "After all, when you practice you're learning how not to make the same mistakes and how to do things right, you're just not learning new things necessarily."

His logic was at work yet again.

"And anything can be learning, really," he added with a shrug. "Even if you're just playing a game with somebody or if you're doing something that you always do, you're learning new things about what you're doing or about yourself or about the people you're with ..."

He nodded towards Elnara. "Like Mama. That's the first time I ever saw her not give Papa a hug right away when she sees him."

"Really? I didn't think they would come so close," Feng looked serious for once as she walked over to where Ulani and Ulrich are.

Though it meant that the problem woudlnt' go away any time soon that wasn't good at all she thought to herself.

"Then... I don't suppose," Ryu replied as he made his way over to Tao, "That you would mind if Tao stuck around. We're not sure quite yet, but mother has been worried that Tao needs more room."

Hey! She recongized those people, even though her bird like brain couldn't understand why. Tao trotted forward as she placed her head on the table, "Preeee?"

She blinked up at Ulani and Ulrich from where she had placed her head. It was like she was trying to say, pet me.. pet me... Pet ME.....

"True," Storm grinned. "It was kind of crowded in there. Kind of like at the cafe when we all go there. Mama always gives us some work to do so we're never bored there but then we run into each other half the time because it's not really too big there."

Still, they hadn't gone there, all eleven of them, in a while - in fact, not since before Shiro had summoned Ura.

Lin nodded at that, "Yea... and normally there aren't so many of us in the hallway like that, and with Wish and Tao there it didn't help matters much."

She was surprised, she had never seen Tao indoors like that, she had been living in the greenhouse during the winter.