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Earendil chuckled softly. "Yes," he murmured, "he would. But speaking of new ... you need some new clothes." He poked her in the shoulder. "What are you looking for? You're going to need some ideas before they can help you."

"Traveling clothes," Kaito nudged Lin. "You should get some traveling clothes!"

Speaking of which, he thought, perhaps they should all invest in several sets of travelwear before they went on their trip. Who knew how long they would be gone? Or how rough it would be on their clothes?

"More practical, less fancy," Earendil smiled, looking around for the counter lady again. He switched to High Elven. "Excuse me."

The woman smiled warmly at him. "Yes, my lord?"

Earendil smiled back and nudged Lin forward. "My friend is in need of some traveling clothes," he explained. "Lin, tell her what you're looking for?"

The woman wrote down the information on a sheet of paper. "And the material?" she asked. "Colour and amount?"

She smiled warmly at Lin, trying to put her at ease, since she was obviously nervous about something.

She wrote down the information, then looked up at Lin one final time. "And intended usage?" she asked. "It will help him to determine how to make it."

She waited, pen poised, for Lin's answer.

The woman smiled and set her pen down. "Then as soon as Rhyki is finished with his current customer, he can take your sizes and go from there. How does that sound for you?"

Her brown eyes were warm, her smile cheerful, and she glanced at the tailor to see how far along he was. "He shouldn't be more than a few minutes longer," she murmured softly.

And indeed it was not long before the tailor was done with the child, and the mother and child quickly left the shop, casting a curious glance over their shoulders as they left. The tailor wrote on a piece of paper, then handed it to the woman behind the counter, who filed it away. Then he smiled at Lin and the others and held out one hand to her.

"Come, come," he said warmly. "I am Rhyki, and what is your name?"

Perhaps he spoke the common tongue because he didn't recognize their races, Kaito's and Lin's, or perhaps because Kaito had used it the day before; but whatever the reason, he did not use the High Elven tongue as everyone else in the city did.

He smiled warmly at her, his dark eyes twinkling brightly. "Here, here," he urged her, tugging her towards a short stool. "Right up here ... now, some full suits, was it? Some sets of pants and shirts, all of spidersilk, all in white?"

He circled her with a measuring tape, quickly taking her measurements, top to bottom, all around. "Arms out, please."

"And for traveling and training, so it says," he smiled at her. "It seems you plan on living quite an exciting life. If only we all could do such things - but then who would make our clothes, or things to decorate our homes? But then to some of us, such work is an adventure in itself."

He stood behind her and measured for her wings. "Take myself as an example," he murmured happily. "Where else would I have found the challenge and the honour of seeing with my own eyes a new gift of the Valar, given to the race of Men?"

Clearly he was misinterpreting Lin's wings, but he was quite fascinated by her.