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Caranthir smiled. "That explains a lot." Then he shook his head again. "At any rate, I ask that you leave Aerin alone, at least for today. Allow her to rest as she has not rested in almost four hundred years."

Earendil nodded. "We will do as you ask."

Earendil smiled. "It was a pleasure to meet you, Caranthir, despite the circumstances," he said as Lin led him from the room.

Caranthir bowed his head. "I hope that we may meet again," he replied. "Take care of yourselves, both of you."

"Always," Earendil grinned, following Lin down the dark hallway. He looked around at the various doors. "Who lives in each of these rooms?" he asked, nodding at the doors they were passing.

"I know the name," Earendil nodded, "but I don't remember him. He left before I was old enough to remember. I know Sir Leith and Sir Boudwin are here somewhere, I remember them from when I was younger."

Much ... much younger.

Sixty five or seventy years ago, at least.

Earendil chuckled. "Interesting to know that he's willing to work with them, one thing I do remember about him is that he was always working with the unicorns, he never would go near the horses."

He watched the doors go by, and as they reached the first floor again, it seemed to him that they were on their way out of the barracks again.

"So who are we going to see?" he asked, curious to know where they were going.

"That would have been before my time," Earendil chuckled, "but still, it's interesting to know how many people here are somehow connected to someone else."

To his understanding, many of the fighters here had been in either the Westland or Southland army, or else been a member of the royal guard somewhere.

"So Jasmine and River's grandparents," Earendil nodded. "Got it. And were they married when they came here? Or did they meet here?"

The ranch was almost as old as Earendil himself, it was quite possible that there could be four or five generations of people here. After all, even Elrohir and Haradhel, who had gotten married the year the ranch had begun, were great-grandparents already.

Earendil laughed. "Sounds like fun. Though keep in mind, there doesn't have to always be formal courting in a relationship," he added with a grin. "I mean, I don't think Aurin and Rhea had anything like that, they just sort of stuck together a lot."

He chuckled softly. "I wonder how her parents took the news. We didn't quite stick around that long, did we? And I think they got a bit sidetracked when Aerin showed up ..."