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Earendil frowned softly. "I see. I know you've been keeping yourself busy with stuff, but ... maybe you should just let yourself relax and have fun sometimes. Even if you don't dress up ..."

Sure, he kept himself busy too, but he always made sure to go to the Festival, or celebrate Coronation Day. Even Haradhel had made time out eventually, and she was obsessed with training.

Earendil chuckled. "To be fair, your definition of fun usually involved lessons or training, or some kind of work," he teased her. "At least, that's what you claim to enjoy when you're at the palace."

The study door opened and Vergil poked his head out. It seemed he hadn't gone back to his studies after all. "Palace?" he asked, interested.

Vergil looked as though he was tempted to stick his tongue out at Cindy, but he seemed to think better of it. "I wanna see a palace someday," he shrugged. "And if I can't see it I might as well hear about it, right?"

Earendil laughed at Lin. She wasn't doing a very good job of presenting her case, but either way, he was amused. Mostly that she would allow herself to get so riled up over it.

"Well, now that we're here and visiting, we both have time to relax and just enjoy ourselves," he grinned at her. "Though I do have to admit, personally, that I do prefer being busy somehow."

Not that that would be a terrible problem here, Miyuki would keep both of them occupied he was certain.

Earendil chuckled at that. "Still. They were doing that when we first arrived as well."

He looked up suddenly as the door opened and Shael stepped in, an empty basket in her hands. "Oh," she smiled warmly, looking around at everyone. "Visitors. I'm sorry, I wasn't expecting you or else I'd have been back sooner."

Earendil smiled at her. He didn't know her well, so he wasn't comfortable yet with just carrying on a conversation as though he did.

"It's good to see you too, all of you," Shael beamed, setting the basket aside. "It's been a very long time since you've been here, especially here in the valley. You always go to the ranch and forget about us over here."

There was a sparkle in her hazel eyes that showed she was teasing them.

She looked over at Cindy. "Where is Vergil?" she asked, tilting her head slightly. "I can't imagine him missing a visit of this size."

"Oh, poor Vergil," Shael murmured, leaning against the wall since all of the seats were taken. "He doesn't take it well when he can't understand something. Actually, he seems to get frustrated easily at just about anything ..."

"Do not!" Vergil's voice came, muffled, through the door of the study.

Earendil chuckled. "I apologize, but I've never seen a child act in such a manner," he grinned. "It's just new to me. I mean ... yes, I grew frustrated when I had trouble understanding concepts, and I still get frustrated from time to time. But if we would ever act like that ... I don't even want to imagine what might have happened."

Spanks were not unheard of at the palace, nor was going to bed without dinner. Earendil had not been a stranger to punishment growing up, and he knew that was part of why he had turned out the way he had.