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"Tao will stay close as long as she knows where we're going, that way she knows to be here, since she tends to go off and hunt unless it's winter, in which she waits to be fed," Ryu patted Tao on the head.

Tao cooed at the petting she wasn't really sure what they were talking about but somehow she had a feeling dinner was involved, and she was sure she saw a squrriel run past before.

"Give him time," Triton murmured, "At least he's changing, even though it's slowly. Granted I haven't really talked to your father, no one in my family has except Lin."

"That would be for the best," Kara admitted, "Otherwise I wouldn't know where to begin with people, she knows several commands but that's only from her original training and the fact she could be ridden."

This, being something Tao was familiar though, though she did better with verbal commands than motions, she stopped. Looked over her shoulder and blinked curiously at Adan. While she was willing to go off and hunt, she didn't understand why Adan wanted to stop.

Perhaps he wanted to hunt too? Wait... fledglings didn't hunt, they were fed, he wanted to be fed?

Triton chuckled at that his tail unwinding and swishing back and forth as he was pleased with the thought. He understood what Daeron meant by that even though he had only heard bits and pieces of what had happened.

"So I've heard... more or less, though with Serenity there it was bound to happen...."

"She's with Feng and Ryu at your place," Kara replied, "There was worry she would scare the horses."

"I'm coming," Ryu replied as he patted Tao on the head, "Go hunt," and with that he joined Feng who grabbed his arm and dragged him inside.

Tao chirped before ambling to find something quickly so she could come back. She was pretty good about her food and she was sure there was a river near by which meant fish, fish meant good food and good food meant a happy Tao.


Triton nodded in agreement, "I won't disagree with that, though I can't imagine him being impressed with Celebor after getting punched the first time he sat down to have a meal with him."

Kara smiled softly, "Your only warning is that she'll want attention if she sees you, or if she's eating dinner she'll try to share it."

That she never quite got Tao to stop doing, though fortunately the worse case she had was the liver of something in the greenhouse though what it was Kara wasn't sure if she wanted to know.

Feng smiled and nodded as she followed the three children, "Don't worry I'll get them nice and clean."

At least she would try, she was sure it couldn't be that difficult to get them clean, they were good kids after all.

"Maybe... maybe with more visits he will be," Triton mused taking a glance around the table, "After all, the castle gets a visit once every month or few months, and Elnara is getting married and wants to be married there.... so there will be a lot of chances to suck it up and get use to it."

"See you tomorrow," Kara waved a bit.

Lore smiled as he reached out to shake Daeron's hand, he had heard of him but had never met the man. So this was a good thing to be able to do really.

"Yes," he laughed softly, "Yes, that is the way it is."

Lin hadn't really noticed the time before, and had thought of it as her father went about meeting people as usual, when she saw him pass. Probably to talk to Celeborn before going off to simply check up on people.

He needed a vacation, did he know that?

When she did notice the time, she noted that they would have to go back in for dinner soon and the last thing she wanted was to run all the way there. Granted it wasn't so bad the first time she had done that.

Aliya's eyes sparkled mischievously when she heard that, and she leaned forward slightly.

"Then I'm going to suggest to you what I suggested to Feng," she grinned. "Why don't the two of you come and stay here for a while? Maybe half a year or a year or something, I don't know, and we could go traveling, perhaps, if Adonijah's old enough and Amdir and I don't go having more kids in the meanwhile. I wouldlove it, and I know the kids would, and I'm sure that Amdir would like it, too!"



Daeron smiled brightly at the two of them. "Well, I'm glad you finally came here," he told them with a chuckle. "Nako's been going on and on since I came to live here about how you were going to come and visit, and how I had to meet Lore, and see both of you ... not to mention, meet all my cousins." He laughed. "You've got to have more kids than Nako ever had, and she's got just about the largest family I've ever heard of!"



Elros smiled at Shiro, then nodded. "Yes ... the sun is indeed going down," he murmured. "I'm sure that it will indeed be getting close to dinner time. Haradhel is always quite punctual. And Donovan, I'm certain, will be heading back inside soon, he's probably going to talk to Celeborn about the trip ... though I wonder if someone might not want to go get Miyu ... she's still in with Aragost."



Celeborn was just leaving his quarters, warmly wrapped in his cloak, sword on his back, quiver at his side, bow in his hand, and heading down the hall towards the stairs. He could hear footsteps coming from the direction of the first floor, but there was always someone coming and going, so he thought nothing of it - until he turned the corner at the bottom of the stairs and just about ran into said someone.

"Excuse me," he murmured, stepping to the side, not recognizing Donovan because of the blackness of the corridor.