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"Arwen wouldn't have struck me as the solitary type myself," Lore replied thoughtfully, "But now that you mentioned it she is always off by herself a lot. She doesn't spend time with Alyse then?"

Since Alyse was the closest to her age, at least far closer than Shael was. It was sort of hard to imagine.

"Though I can understand Saki... she always has a way of endearing herself to people."

Elnara shook her head. "We don't visit often enough for that," she admitted. "But once the twins are a bit older I'm sure we can visit a bit more regularly ... after all, Shiro's planning on coming here for a year with Lin, and now that the wedding's over and done with, and the moving, we really won't have all that much to keep us occupied back home ... well, no more than the usual, anyways."

She looked over at Lore. "What do you think?"

Elnara nodded and smiled. "Especially since it's really our only chance to see Mother and Ada," she murmured. "And even then it's no guarantee, since they travel quite often."

Just at that moment, Hana started fussing a bit, and Garrick let out a wide yawn.

Elnara blinked. "Has it been so long already?" she murmured softly, moving to check on them. "Though I suppose with the walk and everything ... it's got to be close to their nap time already."

She gently rubbed Hana's stomach, hoping that she didn't have a tummyache. "Maybe we should get back," she suggested to Lore.

Elnara nodded and began to wrap the twins in their blankets once more.

"If they fall asleep, all the better," she murmured. "But if they do cry, there's nothing we can do about it."

Once Hana was wrapped, she handed her off to Lore and began to wrap Garrick up as well.

Once he had Hana, Lore gently placed her in the sling, making sure it was secure. Though he continued to have a hand on her just to make sure.

"At least not until we get back," Lore agreed with a sigh, "And maybe Haradhel, if not... well we'll at least visit again, hopefully more than once."

Since people here would be too busy to visit them.

Haradhel followed Lore and Elnara to the door, opening it for them so that their hands would be free for the babies.

"Don't worry about it," she smiled, "we should be the ones visiting you, after all. You just worry about getting those two home safely and in bed, all right? We'll see you later."

Elnara waved to Haradhel and started off towards home. Overall, she felt that the visit had gone well, and that for their first time out the twins had done swimmingly well.

Now if only there were a way for them to find out how to go back to Gaia without having to experience too big of a time change.

On the whole, it was a good walk back to the house, and the twins behaved quite fine, considering how tired they were. Hana fell asleep in Lore's sling, but Garrick didn't seem quite as happy with the idea of trying to sleep while moving, and in the end he started wailing when they were only a short distance from the house. By the time they got inside, he was too worked up to sleep, so while Lore put Hana to bed Elnara paced with Garrick in an attempt to settle him down.

Lesson learned, from then on Elnara let Garrick fall asleep before carrying him anywhere.

Elnara smiled sheepishly, rocking Garrick carefully as she paced the living room with him.

"If only he would sleep," she laughed. "I guess I should have been a little more active before they were born, he might be more used to being jostled about a bit."

She put him against her shoulder and rubbed his back gently, wincing a bit when one flailing fist found its way near her eye.