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Lin blinked not at all understanding how on earth Elberon could still have a lot of questions. Though he already seemed to be in a conversation (granted it was one way) with Shael.

Shael had changed a lot she thought to herself, but that was to be expected. Shael was a grown up now like Earendil, at least that's what Lin guessed.
"Mi!"

Miyu pulled her hand back as if she had been burned. Wide eyed and nearly trembling she looked up, but she couldn't see quite anything or much of anything. It was also becoming very hard to squashed the need to skitter in the other direction.

The filly shied to one side, though the mare that was standing next to it remained quite calm.

Shael sighed and rose to her feet, using the horse as a brace to rest her hand on. "Ahren ... must I warn you every time you come in here? Don't yell ... some of the older horses can handle it, but the foals cannot."

Elberon stopped talking mid-sentence and looked over his shoulder at the children as they entered, and the moment he spotted Lin he chose subconsciously to completely ignore Ahren.

"Lin!" he exclaimed cheerfully. "How wonderful to see you! Ach, you've grown so much since the last time I saw you, it's been far too long! What have you been up to lately? I hear you've been learning quite a bit, what kind of things have you been learning? More than the average child, I wager. You must be quite the brilliant one, I have to say ..."

And so on.




The elf reached out and put one hand on Miyu's shoulder. "It's all right!" he said hastily. "I apologize if I've frightened you, but you look lost ... are you all right?"

He had the ability to see in the dark as clearly as if it were day, and he quite often forgot that most others could not.

"Sorry," Ahren said humbly, his tone far more quiet. He stood at the door of the stall, leaning on the edge of it. "I promised Lin I would teach her how to ride a horse, but first she has to know what the parts of a horse are, and you're the best teacher ever for that, so I was hoping maybe you could teach her with me! Can you? Please?"

He looked at her pleadingly.

Lin giggled she kind of felt sorry for Elberon (of course she hadn't been in his company for long periods of time). Though it did look like he had work to do.

"I'm distracting you," she told him.


"I was looking for Yami-san," Miyu explained softly, "But... I haven't been here...."

Well she actually had once but she was too busy trying to bury herself into her grandfather's coat to notice where they were going.

"Yeah, you are," Ahren nodded, folding his arms across his skinny chest. "Papa says maybe we should get you to work in here all by yourself so that you don't have anyone to get distracted with. I think it's a good idea, then you can't do stupid things like cut your finger off again."

Elberon's face grew even redder, and he held up his left hand, showing that not one, but three fingers were missing.

"The second and third were accidental," he said firmly, before someone could accuse him of doing something stupid just because he was curious. "I was leading a struggling horse and its reins got tangled around my hand. It ran, and two of my fingers were torn off."

"Well at the rate that you have accidents," Shael replied, standing and brushing her hands off on her skirt, "it's amazing you have any limbs left at all." She turned her attention to Ahren and Lin. "All right, you two, I'm finished with the filly. Let's head outside and we can get started on those lessons."

And she left the stall, closing the door after her again and locking Elberon in.




The elf looked at Miyu, feeling a little lost.

"I'm sorry, the concept of light and dark does not mean anything to me," he apologized. "Do you know what other people call him, perhaps? Or what he looks like?"

"Err.. is it okay to lock him in?" Lin asked as she let herself get dragged along.

Poor Elberon, he really didn't have any luck it seemed at times. Though she was sure it was because he kept talking and talking to Shael like that. Always going and never stopping.

"Uhm...." Miyu tried to think.

This is what happened when you didn't use a person's normal name (not that his name was normal) often enough. She had heard it from Lin who wouldn't call anyone but any nickname, and she was sure Adan had a nickname as well.

"Well... he's very, very, very tall, and he's always covered... and.. I don't know. I don't know what's under all that cloth."