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Andarien hadn't seen the upstairs bedroom that Miyuki was staying in since their first day in the city, when the plan had been for him to stay there with her, so he let her lead the way into the house and to the room.

"Do you have a lot of them, then?" he asked Miyuki curiously. "I ... have kind of been forgetting about it, what with working all the time ... so many things going on ..."

Andarien nodded. "Yeah, they do." He looked down at Eon and stroked his head tenderly. "I hope they're all right. They were gone such a long time ..."

Eon looked up at Andarien and nuzzled his hand.

Andarien looked around the room curiously and stood just inside the door. He could see that Miyuki had really made herself at home here, just as he had made himself quite at home in his room at Corazin's shop.

"Home sweet home," he quipped, setting Eon down on the floor.

The Pokemon stretched a bit and bounded over to Miyuki and looked up at her. He was waiting for her to put Ai down, though Andarien didn't realize that and thought that he was just waiting to be fed.

Eon placed himself next to Ai and sat down to wait patiently for Miyuki to feed him and Ai. While they waited, he licked Ai's neck, grooming her - for pleasure more than anything, since despite their week in the forest they were rather clean.

Andarien watched the exchange and rubbed the back of his neck thoughtfully. "Mi," he murmured, "d'you think Eon and Ai are sweet on each other?"

Eon's ears perked up when he heard the sound of the berries pouring into the bowl and he gave Ai one final n** before nudging her towards the bowl so that she could eat first.

Andarien sat on the edge of the bed and watched the two Pokemon. Their behaviour was odd indeed, stranger than anything he'd seen before. Of course, he hadn't had the privilege of watching any people during their courtships, otherwise he might have thought even more of it.

"Mi, why do you think they were gone for so long?" he asked quietly, looking up at his sister. "Why would they leave us like that?"

Andarien shrugged. He wouldn't know. All he knew was that Ponydash had never done something like that ... but then again, he hadn't really had the chance, either. Maybe they would find out in the future.

In the meanwhile, Lin and Earendil had gone back to the library, where they hadn't been since their first day exploring the city. They had been very busy, and only now, a few months after their arrival, had they remembered that they had promised to return to ask the librarian the names of people who had left Caras Galadhon to scout out the other countries.

"If we end up knowing any of these people," Earendil quipped to Lin as they approached the enormous building, "then I'm going to have to wonder if my family - the Aldrich family, I mean - is some kind of magnet for the incredible and inexplicable."

"All right, I warrant you that we've already had the most amazing things happen to us," he admitted with a chuckle. "But honestly I had never imagined that anything else so amazing could ever happen. If it does turn out to be the case, don't you think it will be even more than we ever could have expected?"

He reached out to open the door for her and held it so that she could enter the library first.

"Now that you mention it," Earendil said thoughtfully, entering behind Lin, "I did have the feeling I'd seen something like it before ..."

Amanya was, as usual, behind her desk, working from several books and making notes on a separate sheet of paper. Shiro was also predictably in one of the study booths, where he had pretty much planted himself when they're arrived in the city.

"Good morning," Earendil greeted the librarian with a smile.

She looked up from her work, her bicoloured eyes first curious, then welcoming as she recognized her visitors. "Welcome back," she greeted them, rising to her feet. "I had begun to wonder when you would return."