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Beren shook his head slowly. "No, I don't have Sight at all ... I don't know, maybe they're just those dreams that happen but don't mean anything ... anyways it's ncie to see you again, Vanya, and I look forward to working with you, if Ulrich approves."

"I'm sure he will," Vanya smiled warmly at him. "Just ask if you need anything, there are some strange characters here but they sort of grow on you."

Beren chuckled. "Thanks, I kind of noticed," he siad drily.

Beren turned to Lin and shrugged as Vanya headed off towards the barn. "I don't know," he admitted. "Perhaps head back to the house? I'm really not sure ... unless there's some work I can help with at the moment?"

Arwen looked thoughtful. "I don't know of any, unless you were to go on rounds with Ada or something," she murmured.

The days passed slowly, and Beren found it easy, despite the strange reactions of some of the people to him, to fit into life on the ranch. He spent the days doing whatever work he was allowed to help out with, going out on guard duty with some of the men when he was allowed.

At long last, the day arrived when Ulrich came back from the city, and it was about midmorning when the cart rolled into the ranch, stopping near the stone deck by the ranch house. The cart was filled with goods of many sorts, though a good deal of them were building materials for Shael and Adonai's house, but he did have some things that had to be dropped off at the ranch first.

Arwen ran out of the house to greet him, her young face glowing with excitement.

"Did you bring us anything?" she asked eagerly, waiting impatiently beside the cart for him to get down and uncover his load.

Ulrich laughed. "For your mother, yes," he grinned, "but not for you in particular. Come on, help me carry some of this stuff inside, your mother's been waiting for it."

Arwen giggled at Ulrich and grabbed a few of the sacks of sugar, then skipped off towards the house.

"Guess who's here," she grinned at him, walking backwards so that she could grin mischievously at him while she walked. "Donovan and Celebor and Celeborn and Daeron went out on another hunt, so Kara and Lin are here!"

Ulrich chuckled and hefted a sack of flour over his shoulder. "Really?" he grinned. "That's good news. I imagine that Feng and Ryu are here as well, then? I know Aliya's been anxious for them to come again."

Arwen giggled and held the door open for him. "Yes!" she exclaimed cheerfully. "And Miyu is here too, I almost forgot ... she's so quiet, and she spends so much time with Aragost that it's sometimes easy to forget her."

Haradhel appeared from the kitchen, Arahad tottering close behind her. "Welcome back," she smiled at Ulrich. "There's been an interesting string of happenings since you've been gone ... far more guests than usual."

She moved out of the doorway so that she wouldn't be in his way. "Straight to the cellar," she smiled.

Lin looked up from her book before setting it aside, it wasn't time yet though for meeting people. If Miyu couldn't go then she should go quite yet. So the little girl thought for a moment what she was going to do until she decided on finding someone in the house. Getting off her butt she wandered out of the playroom, perhaps to go help or something...

She had not expected to see hear the Ulrich's voice, and curiously she changed direction to meet up with him.

"Boring...." Lin admitted, "I read for an hour and then I didn't want to read more on that book."

She wasn't so fond of it, knowing that there was much more to do. The little girl tilted her head looking in the direction that Arwen and Ulrich had gone.

"Is Ulrich back?"

Lin's eyes lit up at the thought, she loved the idea of telling Ulrich. After all these were very interesting people, and she heard that Gion stayed with Ulrich and Ulani for a while and she was sure Ulrich would be interested in hearing about Pen.

She just hoped it wasn't the same kind of interest Elrohir and Daeron had taken when they first arrived.

Then there was Beren, she wanted to know if Beren could stay.

"Yes!" she giggled, "I'd love to do that!"

Lin grinned at that, she was looking forward to it, and having Ulrich here reminded her of the question that had been in the back of her mind. What was it exactly about Beren that made people act like that? She felt pulled back for a moment, it was Arahad speaking that clicked her in.

She laughed, "Okay, okay."

She squated a bit so Arahad could get on, it wasn't like he was heavy and he wasn't that tall... yet.