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Earendil smiled at her. "Do you mind if I tag along?" he asked hopefully. "I know it will be different for you, not doing your visiting and such alone, and I'll understand if you would rather I didn't ..."

After all, she was used to being on her own here, it would be very different having him around. At least, that was how he saw it.

Earendil stared at Lin. "Besides Uncle Elrohir and Haradhel and their family?" he asked her, surprised. But when he thought about it, he had to blush. "Right ... Rhea's family, which then includes her grandparents - that's Ulani and Ulrich, right? - and whatever other family they have."

He snapped his fingers suddenly. "Hey, isn't Celebor here with his family or something?"

Earendil laughed. "Well, I can't remember all of that right now, so I won't even bother trying. I'm sure it will make more sense when I meet them in person."

They reached the dining room, and the table was already set for them. They were welcomed, and thus their meal began.

After dinner, it was a matter of finding places for everyone to sleep - which, now that the slavery in the north was over and done with, there were many empty beds.

"You also told me that Aerin doesn't speak, and that Aragost is mysterious," Earendil chuckled as he followed after Lin. "So either something has changed here since we came, or else you weren't quite being honest with me."

He grinned at her. He was teasing of course. But how could he not? It was true after all.

"So where are we looking for him?" he asked, looking around.

Earendil followed her inside. "Hold up a moment," he said, stopping in the darkness. He put his hands together and closed his eyes, and his hands began to glow. He stayed like that for a moment, then opened his eyes, though the glow did not fade.

"Here," he smiled, opening his hands to show Lin an electric blue rose, much like the ones he had given her as a child, though more realistic and far brighter now. He tucked it into Lin's hair. "Keep it," he smiled. "I don't know if you still have your other ones or not, but ... it will keep glowing as long as you're doing anything to do with me, either being with me, or thinking of me."

He shrugged. "Don't ask me why, that's just how it works."

Earendil smiled, and he was glad of the darkness. It meant that Lin couldn't see the redness of his face. And he was sure it had to be quite red: it was very warm, to say the least.

"So where is his room?" he asked, looking around. "Seems a bit difficult to find anything in here ..."

"Got it," Earendil nodded, following Lin. It was kind of interesting, how it illuminated the side of her head they way he had positioned it, and in its glow he could see the very tips of Miyuki's fingers as she reached for it.

Once they reached the top of the stairs, there was the sound of a door opening and closing, and in that brief instant where the door was open, Caranthir could be seen, his pale blue robes disappearing into his bedroom.