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"Oh ... sorry," Ahren flushed and slowed his pace slightly. He really did feel bad for making Shael do more than she had to, after all he knew how hard it had been for her just to learn to walk normally, and he knew that running for her was completely out of the question.

Shael smiled kindly at Lin. "He'll be fine, don't worry about him. No one is ever as angry with him as they might let on, it's just a relatively effective way of getting a few moments of peace every now and then."

She led the children over to the corral and motioned for them to climb up onto the fence. "Make sure you don't fall," she warned them. "It's a long way down, and I don't want you to hurt yourselves."




The elf blinked at Miyu once more and tilted his head curiously. "Interesting," he murmured. "I shall never understand why children always have such a fascination with the man. But if you would like, I can take you to him. He may still be in his room, though he should be heading out on duty soon."

Ahren grinned as he climbed up the rungs and perched himself atop the fence.

"I'm always careful," he grinned at Shael. "I never hurt myself."

Or rather, he did at times, but whenever it happened he always got Arwen to take care of him so that the adults wouldn't find out.

Lin looked down, she had never sat on a fence before. It was a bit of a balancing act she thought to herself as she held on before looking out in the field. When was the last time she had been in this area? Probably since the first time she came here.

"Okay."


Even though she had been in the dark for a while, she really couldn't see much if anything. It wasn't like she had any special eye sight after all.

"No... it's all... black."

The elf nodded thoughtfully. "I see," he murmured. "Well then I'll just have to tell you everything we're passing, so that next time you can find your own way around, even if it's with a hand on the wall."

And as they passed the hall that led to the door he nodded to it. "That's where you came in. You turned right at the end of the hall, that leads to where the night shift fighters are. Instead, next time you come, turn left - the way that we're heading now - and it will lead you down another corridor to some stairs."

It was only a moment before Shael was back, followed by a tall black horse with a long mane a tail. It had a white diamond in the middle of its forehead, and one white sock.

"This is Brego," she told Lin, taking the horse into the corral and closing the gate between the corral and the paddock. "He's one of the oldest horses we have here. Very well trained, he was Amdir's first project."




The elf smiled at Miyu in the darkness. "Indeed," he nodded. "Though it's far easier to find your way around up there than down here. Only one hallway, no turns, since it only takes up half the barracks and there's a dividing wall between the day shifters and the night shifters."

He grabbed her shoulder gently. "Here's the turn for the stairs," he murmured, turning her to the right.

"Really?" Lin asked looking at him, the horse was rather handsome.

Horses were still big compared to her, but at least she didn't feel hopelessly small compared to the horse this time.

Miyu allowed him to steer her in the right direction.

"How do other people are able to walk around here?" she asked softly.

Since she was getting the impression that the person helping her could see very well in here, but she was sure not everyone was like that.

"Make light?" Miyu mused on this.

She wondered why she had not thought about it sooner? But she couldn't use magic without an adult watching her, but she was sure it wasn't too different from making a star right? She would prefer that than feeling around.

"That would make it less scary."