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"Hi Haradhel!" Lin waved happily and looked back at Serenity with a wide grin.

Any wider and it might split her face open from the looks of it, she pointed straight at Haradhel with a grin.

"Now you can give Mommy advice," she told Serenity seriously.


"If it makes you feel any better," Donovan murmured to Haradhel, "That would be his mother, and Lin have you been talking to anyone recently."

He was becoming very suspicious of this Mommy advice.

"Uhm.... grandma likes to take Mommy out for tea," Lin giggled, "But she didn't say what, she said girl talk and then chuckled and then they went for tea."

Serenity smiled, an actual real smile, and nodded at Cindy's question. "Much," she murmured softly; then, releasing Elrohir, she studied Haradhel curiously. She was rather fond of the woman already, she had heard the joking tone in her voice when she had questioned Elrohir.

"You, then, are my daughter-in-law, aren't you," she smiled, still slightly dazed. "I'm ... pleased to meet you ... though surprised, I have to admit ..."

"Yay!" Lin grinned, "Good now everything is all better," she nodded settling back into the crook of Elros' arm.

It was only then that Donovan noticed that Lin managed to cling on to yet another person. Well, he supposed if Elros didn't mind the little girl, she seemed to be able to cling onto a lot of people.

"And what have you been up to?" he asked Lin as they headed back downstairs.

"Asking questions," Lin grinned, "And listening, and talking."

Cindy blinked and looked at Serenity thoughtfully, "How long is long? Were you at Ulani and Ulrich's when she, Lore and the children visited?"

Since that was the last visit she could recall Elnara made to the Borderlands at all.

Serenity giggled, and felt much better for it. "Of course I was, it was when they brought me home again," she reminded Cindy. "That was when Idhril was born ... it's amazing how that happens." She smiled dreamily, then turned her attention back to Cindy. "But that was the last time I saw any of them. How are they all doing? How long has it been for you? Here it's been fifteen years ..."



Elros blinked at Lin, though his face was once again expressionless. "I think we could avoid a great many misunderstandings," he murmured softly, "if you would explain just what it is you are talking about."

He still wasn't quite certain he knew what she had been talking about outside, but the time for questions about that had passed.

Lin looked up, "Well... Luthien is Earendil's Mommy and she told me that if I stuck around Earendil's Daddy long enough he would get use to me."

Which she thought was completely logical, though no one else would know why.

Haradhel led everyone into the dining room and beckoned for them to take a seat, but declined from sitting herself.

"What would everyone like?" she asked, putting her hands behind her back. "We've got water, ale, wine, cider, milk," she ticked them off on her fingers, "tea, coffee ... um ..."

"Juice!" Lin replied with glee.

"In order words, cider for her," Donovan added, "I'll just have water."

Since he didn't really like milk, he didn't need the caffinee from tea or coffee and he wasn't up to drinking. As he considered Elros' question he then explained.

"Several years ago I left to go hunting for Serenity's tormentors with Triton and his brother Yue. We left from the palace in the captial city, Lin had followed me but I had left by the time she managed to find her way inside the castle."

Omitting portals and the like and riddle talking kirins.

"They actually have more relation to Serenity and Elrohir than to Lin. To put it shortly, Ruel is one of Serenity's sons and those that would deny all conntection to his mother and sister because they can change shape. Luthien is his wife and they had three children. Earendil is their middle child though he's beyond a full grown man by now, and Lin loves to hang around him. She stalks Ruel under this impression that if she does it enough then he'll get use to her and stop trying to shoo her off. He doesn't take to differences that well," Donovan shrugged, "Lin spends a lot of time in the castle when she can, she just likes hanging around there."