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"Probably," Earendil agreed. He gazed at her for a moment, his expression thoughtful.

"It's funny," he murmured. "Usually it's when you're here that everything happens ... but it seems that for once, so much was happening while you were gone."

Earendil chuckled softly. "I suppose that's true," he smiled. "It was all expected, it just happened while you were gone."

He looked as if he were about to say something else, but then he seemed to think better of it and simply smiled instead and said, "Which reminds me. I have something for you, up at the house."

Earendil chuckled. "Don't go fishing for hints, because you're not getting any," he teased her. "You'll get it when you get it, and not a moment before."

He grinned and stood up suddenly, holding his free hand out to Lin. "Now, you can't sit here and talk with me for so long and not talk with Elros and Alena when they're sitting so near. Come and see them and the baby."

Earendil chuckled and squeezed Lin's hand, then led her over to Elros and Alena.

The couple was sitting close together for warmth - the stables after all were not heated, and it was winter - and the baby was wrapped warmly in layers of clothes and blankets. She was wide awake at the moment, green eyes wide, and young though she was her fiery hair was thick and already so long it was almost in her eyes.

"Hello, Lin," Elros greeted her with a warm smile. "It's nice seeing you in this area again, it's been a long time."

Alena giggled softly at Miyuki, startling the little girl, who blinked up at her mother with furrowed brows.

"Thank you," she said warmly. "Would you like to hold her? She's quite content at the moment, I don't think she'll mind."

If the smell of the horses didn't bother her, or the sudden noises that were coming from both the arena and the people around her, Alena was sure that being passed from one person to the next wouldn't bother her either.

Alena laughed softly. "I'm sure you will be. Here," she murmured, holding Shiloh in one hand and reaching out to help Miyuki with the other. "You need to hold her like this ..."

She positioned Miyuki so that she was sitting firmly on the seat, arms out for the baby. Then she set Shiloh carefully in Miyuki's arms. "Make sure to hold her firmly, but not too tight," she said. "She can't fidget too much yet, so you shouldn't have to worry too much about her falling, unless you let go."

Shiloh stared right back up at Miyuki, and young though she was, her green eyes were wide with curiosity. Her hands were trapped inside the blanket that was wrapped around her, but she looked as though she were trying to reach for Miyuki. Instead of her hands stretching out, though, her mouth opened and closed as if she was trying to eat Miyuki, despite the fact that no part of the kitsune was near her mouth.

Alena stayed close, watching carefully and smiling warmly.

"She likes you," she murmured. "She's not afraid of you in the least."

Alena smiled at Miyuki. "That's what she does when she's happy," she explained. "Babies don't know how to smile, they have to learn, so when they're happy they do things that they like to do - she likes to suck on things, so she makes that sort of motion when she's happy."

Inside the blanket, the baby was kicking her feet as well - at least as well as she could being wrapped up and all.