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Kaito laughed. "Snow? Yummy?" He snickered. "Do you know what snow is, Miyuki? Snow is water that froze around a piece of dirt. Sure, the dirt here is a lot cleaner than the dirt back home, but still! It's dirt!"

Sir Valdemar chuckled at Kaito. "You are aware that no one ever was harmed from eating some dirt?" he asked.

"Speak for your own world," Kaito retorted. "There are so many toxins in our dirt, I don't even want to think about it!"



Earendil smiled. "Arwen has also received a letter, and she has written to us to say that the Zephyr is ready for us whenever we are ready to go. She and Roydon will be taking us again. Celeb of course will be coming along as well. The last I heard of Leyenda and Kelirahc, they were still traveling, so I have no idea if we'll see hide or hair of them this time around."

"That, I imagine, would be up to him," Earendil murmured with a smile. "We know there is room for him, but whether or not he wants to will be the deciding factor."

He chuckled softly. "Perhaps we should go find him, and Miyuki while we're at it?"


Kaito rolled his eyes. "No, Miyuki, it's not that it's closer to the dirt or anything. Each individual flake is a collection of frozen water particles around a microscopic speck of dirt. Thousands of them are in each handful."

Earendil chuckled softly. "I'm sure if they didn't, Kaito or Senka would have come back here to let us know something was wrong," he grinned. "Or else we'd have heard something."

Some yelling or hollering or some such hullabaloo.


Kaito squinted at her. "Just take my word for it," he gave up. "Ask your mom when she catches up with us. But if that's not a reason for you to stop eating snow, then think about this: it lowers your internal body temperature and causes you to freeze faster, causes hypothermia ..."

He trailed off, suddenly realizing that all of that would be going over her head as well, then finished off with, "It will make you freeze to death if you eat too much of it."

Earendil blinked at Lin and stepped away from his desk.

"Because ...?" he pressed, holding his arm out for Lin to take.


Kaito sighed. Senka had a big mouth, and there were times he wanted to gag her.

"It's only bad if you eat a lot of it," he told Miyuki, ignoring Senka entirely. "Really you shouldn't eat any at all, but if you're going to anyways, just don't eat a lot of it."

Earendil chuckled. "Well, there's no time like the present to learn," he grinned at Lin as they started down the corridor. "For that matter, what do I really know about children?"

Kaito snorted with laughter. "Hurt your head. Well that's just a sign that you've had way more than you should!" he laughed. "Well on your way to making yourself sick!"

"Sometimes I wonder if it's only because of my connection to the children that I spend time with," Earendil murmured. "I mean ... sure, I don't see many children that I'm not related to, but I can't connect with them the way I do with Kelirahc or Miyuki or Aranxia ..."

And that only made Kaito laugh louder. "Obviously it was! Or else you wouldn't have had a brain freeze!"

Sir Valdemar smiled faintly and put one hand on Kaito's shoulder. "Kaito," he murmured, "I believe it would be a good idea to stop teasing her. She is very young and probably does not quite understand it all yet ..."

Earendil chuckled. "Well ... at least we're not going through this alone," he murmured, smiling widely down at her. "And that will be good for us, for all of us."

Kaito grinned. "Such a kid."

Sir Valdemar smiled faintly, then turned to Miyuki, also ignoring Kaito. "So Miyuki. What kinds of things do you like to do?"