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Earendil smiled faintly. "Aren't we a pair?" he murmured. "One or the other of us needs to get a hobby that we can do when we're in one place, though admittedly neither of us do particularly well in one place for a long time."

But then again, maybe the key was in Lin's final comment.

"Maybe we should find something here to learn about," he shrugged. "I don't know what, particularly, but I'm sure there must be something."

Earendil chuckled. "Well, I didn't necessarily mean learning to do something," he amended, "but what about learning about something? Perhaps we could find the country's equivalent of a historian, or someone who was around before the coup and could tell us about what the country was like back then."

Anything to stave off the boredom.

Earendil nodded, but he was slightly disappointed. "And I can't leave the room to ask anyone," he murmured, glancing back towards the window.

Suddenly the door to the hall opened. Andarien and Miyuki were returning from their jaunt to the conservatory and kitchen.

"We're back," Andarien called to their parents as he entered the room ahead of his sister.

The moment he spoke, Zeus came tearing out of the next room and just about pounced on his master's feet. His fur was crackling with pent up electricity. He was getting cabin fever, and he was eager to get some exercise.

"Zeus always wants out," Andarien laughed. "Not now, Zeus. Later. You were out earlier, anyways."

Zeus squeaked up at Andarien as if protesting that it hadn't been enough, but at another look from his master, he went back to the other room again.

Earendil chuckled softly. "How was the parade?" he asked the two, since that had been their reason for leaving this time.

"Oh?" Earendil raised one eyebrow. He was curious to hear about the conservatory. He'd seen part of the parade, and he knew what they meant about it being boring - but the conservatory was something new, and since he couldn't see it himself he wanted to hear about it.

Andarien wrinkled his nose. "It's ... dead. All the plants have been dead since the General took over, I think, so it's nothing but rot. And dust."

"So we're going to change the soil in the pots and try growing Pokemon berries in them," Andarien said eagerly. "It'll be a lot of work but at least something will be growing in there, and who knows? Maybe the berries will be good to help people here, too!"

"There's a thought," Earendil mused. He turned to Lin and smiled. "Think I ought to try some?"

"Wherever she is," Earendil grinned. "I'm sure she'll be in to check on me eventually. Or Lancaeriel, if she's not with Cael."

Which, he was certain, she would be.

"It makes me wonder just how much we're going to see of anyone while we're here," he mused. "I mean ... Mari's got a whole country to save, just because she's got the city under her control now doesn't automatically mean the rest of the country will come as easily. And if Cael is going to help her, I'm sure Lancaeriel will go along as well, and I can't see Kyrie not going along to help ..."

That really left Wren here with them, since Earendil couldn't travel. It would be very strange ...