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"I'll stay with them!" Lalwen volunteered eagerly, thrusting one hand into the air to get the adults' attention.

Amora laughed and put one hand on her daughter's head. "I had a feeling you would," she grinned. She turned to the others and winked at them. "Lalwen doesn't like being followed around by servants. Thankfully, she always behaves quite well, so unless we're under a time of threat, she does not have to be."

Amora chuckled softly. "Indeed. We will allow Lalwen and Maeglin both some time free from their studies while you are here, then."

Maeglin smiled at that, but Lalwen blinked up at her mother. "But Mama, you always say lessons are so important!" she protested.

Amora smiled at Lalwen and put one hand on her head. "Yes, dear, that's right. But there are some things that are more important. Properly caring for our guests is far more important than going to lessons."

"It will be strange, too," Lalwen replied to Miyuki. "This is the first time Mama's ever said no lessons!"

"Except for holidays," Maeglin spoke up, slowing down slightly to walk beside her sister and Miyuki. "And Uncle Pengolodh's wedding."

"Those don't count, there are never lessons on holidays," Lalwen pointed out. "So that's not Mama saying no lessons."

Maeglin smiled at her. "It's happened, just not since you started lessons."

"Staff?" Lalwen repeated.

"We're taking lessons from Alassëa," River explained. She turned and pointed out the woman. "That's her there." She turned and faced forward again. "She's blind but she uses a staff better than anyone my grandparents have ever seen, and they've seen a lot."

She wrinkled her nose. "We're supposed to be learning how to see with our eyes closed, how to sense things ... but it's still hard."

Still, she knew she had it easier than some people. Her sensitive elven senses were very helpful after all.

"Here we are," Amora spoke up then as they entered a wide corridor. "The guest wing." She led the group to the first room. "Shiro and Kaito, for you."

The two nekos headed into the room, and Amora moved on. She put Daeron in the next room by himself, and then the next two rooms were for Earendil and Lin and their family: one room for Lin and Earendil, and the next room for Miyuki and Andarien.

"I hope it's all right that they don't have an adjoining door," Amora said apologetically.

Earendil looked down at Andarien. He hadn't been in a different room from him and Lin since he had grown from being an infant, and he wasn't sure how that would go.

Andarien stared back up at Earendil. He hadn't understood most of what Amora had said (or most of what had been said since meeting her, for that matter) and so he didn't know what was going on. "What?" he asked curiously.

Andarien didn't even have to think about that.

He grinned. "I like sleeping with Mi! Her tails are warm!"

He didn't like being cold, and despite the fact that they were in the desert, the nights did indeed get quite cold.

Earendil chuckled. "There we go then," he grinned at Amora.

Amora laughed. "In here, then, for you and Lin, and Miyuki and Andarien will be right next to you."

Earendil headed into the room with Andarien and waited for Lin and Miyuki to follow. They could drop their bags before getting the kids settled in their own room.

Earendil set Andarien on the floor and looked around. There was a large bed in the room as well as a writing desk and chair, a couch, and two sitting chairs. A wardrobe was on the other side of the room, and in the large window sill, which was big enough for a love seat, there were cushions and pillows to make it comfortable.

As Earendil set the bags on the bed for sorting, Andarien wandered over to the window seat and lay down.

"Andarien, come get your bag," Earendil called to the boy, holding up the small bag that was his. "You need to bring it to your room."

Andarien blinked at him, still laying down. "What?"