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"I think that's an excellent idea," Feng grinned at that, "I'm sure we'll find somewhere that's nice for all of us to play, and Jair would love that too. Who knows who else we can get into the fun... you have a lot of family to meet."

Not to mention she was going to have to tell her mother... yes mother would be thrilled at seeing Aras.

Ryu raised a brow, but he looked amused. Probably because that grin was contagious in feeling, "Good point, we were going to head with the others, but that does sound like a better plan, and Feng will go along with it. It doesn't take much convincing."

If at all, he resisted the urge to roll his eyes at that thought, his sister would get into any trouble if you let her.

As she slowed her paced, she could hear voices float out of Sir Valdemar's study. She tilted her head a bit, it wasn't one she recongized, though she probably couldn't recongize Mikhail's by now it had been... a very long time now that she thought about it.

She looked through his door and sure enough it wasn't anyone she knew. Though... he did have some resemblence to Elrohir and Ruel, maybe he was... related? Lin knocked lightly on the door frame.

Atalya smiled seeing Feng, Ryu, Celebor and the children approaching, and as they came close enough she pulled Celebor in for a hug.

"Welcome back," she said warmly as she released him. She smiled brightly at the others who were with him. "And who are these?"



The conversation ceased as Lin knocked on the door frame, and Sir Valdemar smiled brightly and motioned for her to come in. He chuckled softly as he spoke to Reave once last time, then turned his attention back to Lin.

"Welcome back!" he said warmly in elvish. "I don't believe you know Prince Reave. He is back for a while from his duties in Phoenix Falls."

The prince smiled at Lin and nodded his head politely at her. "I apologize," he said, his voice smooth and warm, "but I do not speak your language."

Sir Valdemar chuckled. "Well, she speaks ours, so it's all right," he assured the prince.

Lin giggled a bit as she stepped into Sir Valdemar's office, she knew it was a good idea to learn! Granted she had originally done so because of Ruel, and while she still believed the man had redeeming features. She had given up trying to get him to at least like her... well at least given up through stalking anyhow.

Besides she was too old to stalk full grown men.

"Sir Valdemar has been teaching me since I was really little," Lin explained to Reave, "Normally I would be here for lessons, but.... I'm actually here and will be here for a while because of the wedding."

She turned her attention to Sir Valdemar to explain, he might want to know before he wondered why there were so many strange people about. That and she was so sure Shiro was going to raid the library as soon as possible.

"Elnara and the rest of the family is here, I think everyone is being herded to the Dining Hall, it's going to take a while to sort everyone out."

Atalya smiled at Feng and Ryu, giggling a bit at Naida. "Such a sweet girl," she said warmly. "You must be proud."

She turned to Celebor and laughed at Aras. "Yes, that makes me your great great grandmother," she agreed cheerfully. "Though if it makes it a bit easier to say, you can call me by the elvish word for it, Nininako ... or shorten it to Ninako if you'd like, that's easier still."



Reave's eyes widened in surprise. "Elnara?" he repeated. "Wedding?" He turned to Sir Valdemar and smiled brightly. "It seems I have come at just the right time. I haven't seen my sister since her first return ... forgive me, I must excuse myself."

With a quick nod at Lin and at his old tutor, he turned and headed out the door.

Sir Valdemar smiled and bowed deeply to the prince as he left, then smiled at Lin.

"Come on in," he invited her. "I'm glad the time has finally come. We have all been looking forward to this day." His smile grew wider, and his eyes softened and began to sparkle happily. "And I am glad that Prince Reave has such a good reaction," he murmured.

Lin gave a bowing nod back as Reave left before making her way over to Sir Valdemar. There were brothers she had not met or not seen in a long time. In truth the only person she really saw a lot of was Elrohir.

"I'm glad too, more good reactions the smoother it'll go," she grinned, "And there are so many people that the smoother it goes the easier."

She was mainly thinking of Ruel saying this, Lin so did not want to be put on Mia, Helen or even Masako watch duty if something went wrong.

"That's an understatement..." Lin murmured thinking about it.

She never really thought of her family as being unusually large, but she forgot having a lot of older siblings that there was a lot in the family. So instead she settled down for lessons while waiting for the time when everyone else would have a place to stay and be doing their own thing.

By the time her lessons ended that is exactly what happened. Rooming arrangements were more or less figured out, Lin was spared this having a room of her own aleady. It took a while to figure out... of course rooms would be shared, especially with the smaller ones about, and everyone was off doing something.

It took a while for Lore to get use to the crowd no longer being there. Even though there were still family members walking about. His assistants also went off.

Tristan and Yuki went off to their room to spend time with each other, even in their troupe they never had that many people before in all one place.

Rune decided on the other hand to go wander about, she was very faniscated with the castle.