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"So there might be people here who has been here as long as Starr, but you might not recongize them?" Lore guessed then.

Since he didn't know how often hired help would changed between when she was young and now.

Soronume led them through the second door and into a smaller dining room that had only a few long tables in it. There was a man sitting at the end of one of them, and there was an empty place setting (used) across from him. This then was where Soronume had been when the others had first arrived.

The man looked even older than his wife, and had silver streaks in his hair along with the laugh lines at the corners of his eyes and mouth. He was sitting, but even so he gave the impression of being only slightly taller than his wife, a rather unintimidating figure. He was heavily muscled, but his face, like Soronume's, was kind.

When he saw Elnara and the others enter the room, his eyebrows shot up in surprise. "Elnara!" he exclaimed. "You've returned!"

"Temporarily, Grandfather," Elnara smiled, stepping forward to hug him and plant a soft kiss on his forehead. "Only a visit." She laughed softly. "It's good to see you again."

Then she stepped back to join Lore and her children again.

"Grandfather, this is Lore, and my two youngest, Silvrendir and Idhril."

"And I am glad to meet you as well," Lore admitted as he shook Rigel's hand.

He chuckled realizing that he probably didn't know what to make of the two little ones. They were so small and Elnara adopted from other races as well.

"Silvrendir.. Idhril, won't you say hello?"

Rigel chuckled and took Idhril from Elnara, marveling at how small and light she was.

"You're just like your mother was when she was little," he told her with a grin. "She was always asking questions about everything as well, always had to know how everything worked. Of course, she was bigger than you are now, but she couldn't speak nearly so well as you do!" He laughed again.

Soronume approached them again with four sets of dishes in hand. "Why don't you join us for our meal?" she offered. "We'll be busy enough in a while, but for now we have time to sit and chat."

Silvrendir nodded and hugged Lore around the neck, grinning. His stomach growled just then as if to accentuate his point, despite the fact that he had had quite a big breakfast.

"Sit, Daddy!" he said, pointing to one of the places where his great-grandmother had put a place setting.

Idhril giggled. "Everybody keeps saying I'm just like Mama!" she exclaimed. "Nako said it and Tinuviel said it and Aunt Luthien said it and Papa says it and Aranhil says it ... oh look what he gave me!" She held up the leaf brooch that was still in her hands. "Isn't it pretty?"

Lore chuckled at that as he wandered over to the table to take a seat, "Okay then, it does sound like you're quite hungry."

He set Silvrendir on the table beside him pushing a plate close to the boy so he could sit close. Though the plate, like many normal plates could have been the little boy's own table.

"Ah, I see," Rigel nodded, glancing sidewise at Elnara. The way she had reacted to Idhril's comment (as innocent as it had been) told him that this was not a matter to be discussed - at least not at present.

Still, he had wondered what it would be like if the two of them had met again ... granted, he had never imagined she might already have someone else, so it had likely gone quite differently from what he had thought.

Soronume meanwhile was going around and serving everyone. "Eat up," she smiled warmly at them. "There's plenty more where it came from."