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"Daddy pleasee?" Lin looked up at her daddy with her hands together.

Donovan could almost imagine it being Kara saying 'Donovan please', to the point where it kind of scared him. The similiarities was too much even for him.

He nodded though, there was little harm in it, "Sure, but if anything happens listen to Elros."

Lin squealed happily, "I will, I will!"

At least she hoped nothing bad would happen that, that would happy because it would have to be pretty bad.

"Care," Feng smiled softly, "We had our mother watching us, it might sound strange to you being a natural baby and all, but we are literary first generation Seconds."
"There are no second generation, except for Miyu and Wataru," Ryu added as an after thought, "We don't have biological parents, not because they died or left us, they just never existed."

Aliya was horrified. "You mean there are others of your race who have no one to take care of them? They're left alone?"

She frowned worriedly. "Perhaps it's better then that they sleep ... I couldn't imagine being alone like that. I mean we used to be pretty alone out here, but at least we always had each other ..."


Elros nodded as he ducked out of the house and turned north.

"Yes," he said quietly, "I just have to go once around the ranch and get reports from all the men, and do my own little look around. It's not very exciting, I'm afraid, but necessary. We haven't been running long but we've had a few problems already."

"So it's really hard running a ranch huh?" Lin asked.

Since she thought those were the kind of problems he was talking about, especially since she knew it was hard to run a school and not everyone lived there all time.

"Some do, most don't," Ryu tried to explain, "We know that the two had a guardian, and mother had talked to him a few times enough, but beyond that we don't know."

Feng lounged in her chair thoughtfully, "Besides, they had always been active, the first ones I mean. More so than the later ones, the later ones seem to get it worse."

"Are you a young race, then?" Aliya asked curiously. "The way you're talking ..."



"The wolf attack was during the winter," Elros replied softly. "And yes ... they can and will eat a horse, if there is little other food to be found. They will even attack a moor cat, if they're desperate enough. But last winter was a harsh one, and so we did have to worry about them. Highwaymen are people ... humans who, rather than obtaining legitimate jobs, spend their lives robbing people who live away from the cities, and sometimes killing them."

"Wouldn't it be easier to just live away from the city and live off the plants and animals than to rob people though? It would be less dangerous," Lin replied back thinking that was a silly thing.

After all they bothered to live all the way out here to rob people, why not just simply live here.