Welcome to Gaia! ::

The man chuckled softly. "Visiting or staying?" he asked curiously. "We have had some that have done both."

"Visiting," Earendil replied, smiling warmly, "though I can understand why people like to think we're going to stay."

He grinned at Lin. With her wings and Miyuki's tails it was clear why people would assume that they would not be welcome in some other places - particularly when they factored in the fact that Earendil was a pure-blooded Dark Elf.

The physician looked at Lin and tilted his head curiously. "Earendil?" he repeated questioningly.

Earendil smiled and raised one hand slightly. "Me."

"Ah." The physician smiled. "Well, you have indeed given yourself quite the task. I am from the country of Quir, the easternmost country of Arkandia, so I can tell you quite certainly that it will take you a long time to map."

"Thanks for the warning, but we have been told," Earendil chuckled. "Our guide is allowing us to copy her maps so that we can simply travel and enjoy the journey."

"Ah." The man smiled warmly. "Yes, that is indeed a better way to do it, if you can. And if I may ask, who is your guide? Someone experienced, I hope."

The physician's smile grew wider throughout Lin's explanation, and he nodded knowingly.

"So she is still around," he murmured. "I'd begun to wonder about her. That's good to know."

Then he focused once more on the visitors, his eyes warm. "Well, it's good to know that you're in good hands," he told them sincerely. "But on that note, I'd best be getting back to my patients. You all enjoy your time here, all right? And if you need anything at all, come see me - though with Kyrie as your guide, I doubt you'll need to."

Andarien was training Ponydash when the others returned outside, tossing up stones for the Ponyta to hit with his Ember attack, working on his accuracy. The Eeveelution family was still playing around together as well, though Andarien had to also keep an eye on Zeus and make sure he didn't go overboard with his electricity. Not that the poor thing could help it, but it was something Andarien was trying to teach him to control.

"So?" the young man asked as the rest of his family returned outside. "Anything interesting?"

They hadn't been in there long, and they had all come out at once, so he supposed not.

Andarien nodded when he found out it was a physician's clinic, but he arched one eyebrow when Miyuki mentioned that their parents had chatted a while.

"Oh?" he said in a curious tone. "Find out anything interesting?"

Andarien blinked slowly, processing what his sister had said. "Yeah?" he asked at length. "How do you mean, interesting? Like, surprising? Or ... what?"

Interesting could mean so many things after all. Amusing. Thought provoking. Surprising. Odd.

Andarien nodded thoughtfully. "I hadn't thought of that," he admitted. "But then, I know how inexperienced I am. There's still a lot about traveling that wouldn't occur to me. But you know," he added, "you could always ask Kyrie. About how much she really knows, I mean. Though she did patch up Shiro really well, and Shiro said that it was really serious, that even in Gaia, with their ... uh ... hopsals? Whatever they call them there. Those really big clinics people go to for big problems. Anyways, he said that even in Gaia, at those places, it would have been iffy for him."

That was when Kyrie's skill had more or less sunk in for Andarien, when he had been told that even in Gaia, whose technology was so far advanced beyond what he had seen in Arda, it would have been considered a difficult operation.

"But I guess she's had to learn," he added after a moment's thought. "She's been traveling for a really long time, after all, hasn't she?"