Welcome to Gaia! ::

Lore chuckled at this making his way over to the counter with Elnara. So that explained it, he couldn't recall ever meeting Aranhil's father at all. Probably not seeing as most of the time they were here, it was just Aranhil.

Elnara smiled warmly at Elurin and was about to reply to him when Aranhil himself appeared. She laughed softly and held out one hand to him. "It's lovely to see you again, too, Aranhil," she smiled. "It's been a long time for us, but even longer for you."

Aranhil looked down at the babies and grinned. "They're so beautiful," he cooed, bending over slightly to get a better look at them. "What are their names? How old are they?"

He poked at Hana's hand, grinning widely.

"Nearly a year," Lore supplied.

Or at least around there, it was really hard to tell after a while.

"It gets a bit confusing between the trips back and forth," Lore explained sheepishly, "They were born in the Borderlands, we were there for a while after they were born, and then we came back to Gaia, and of course little time had passed there, and now we're back here and we'll be here for about a month or so."

Aranhil chuckled at Elnara and shook his head. He didn't mind if she wanted to suck on his finger. It was kind of cute, actually.

"At first glance," he grinned, "I would say that Garrick looks like Elnara, and that Hana looks like Lore ... but ... looking closer ..."

He peered down at the infants. "I would have to say, Hana looks like Elnara, but with white hair, and Garrick looks like Lore, but with black," he concluded.

Little did he know that his opinion was actually opposite most other peoples'.

Elnara giggled softly. "I think it just means that they both look like both of us," she smiled warmly at Lore. "And not just like one or the other of us."

Which she personally preferred. She liked that they were both a mixture. After all, it showed the world that they were the product of Lore and Elnara, which she really liked.

Lore chuckled at that, he was glad there was a bit of him in Garrick and in Hana, as well as Elnara having bits of her in the twins. It was... an amazing thing to him.

"Ah... that is true," Lore murmured warmly, "And how have you been Aranhil?"

Elnara nodded and lifted Hana in her arms, still in the sling, to get her to finally let go of Aranhil's finger.

"Thankfully they didn't get any fevers with it," she told her friend, "but still, their teeth are sharp. I would try to get them to stop putting things in their mouths, but you know how children are."

She half wondered why he didn't yet have a family of his own. With his father helping with the shop, he didn't have to work the hours that he did, and he was a very nice man ... on the other hand, she had a feeling she might know why he didn't yet. It sort of made her feel a bit guilty. But there was nothing she could do about that.