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Just then, Storm and Starr came running around the corner of the house, running for Elnara as if they were on fire.

Elnara blinked. She had never seen them move that quickly.

"WE DIDN'T DO IT!" they wailed together, heading for Elnara and hiding behind her legs, clinging to each other as if for dear life, trembling violently with fear.

"What happened?" Lore finally asked blinking from what child to the next.

It was possible they just simply got into something they hadn't meant to, but somehow he thought it was more serious than that.

Ulani followed the boy, looking at Elnara and Lore over her shoulder. "I'm guessing this one is Celebor?" she laughed. "He's exactly like Kara said he was."

Ulrich rose to his feet to follow them as well, both worried and intrigued.

Elnara nodded and followed after Lore. She would have taken his hand, but her arms were full with the twins, who seemed as if they were trying to hide their faces in her shoulder. They were still trembling, and she was more worried about them than she was about what they might have done. All she could do was hug them closer.

Celebor brought them all to the back of the house, where he pointed at the river that ran through the valley. But there was something odd going on at the river.

"It's raining in just one spot!" Celebor giggled. "Look!"

And indeed, in just one small area just above the dock that went partially out over the river, it was raining. There was no cloud, the rain was just falling out of the air a few feet above the dock. Skye and Serenity were standing just beyond the rainfall's reach, watching it and laughing.

Storm and Starr burrowed further into Elnara's arms, still whimpering that they hadn't done anything.

"Wow..." Lore murmured staring at the rain that was appearing out of nowhere, "It's not techically a bad thing, it's just new."

Just magic in otherwords, and perhaps making it rain without clouds was unusual, but otherwise... well as they say, it's Gaia. There were worse things.

Ulani and Ulrich exchanged a glance. Strings?

"What strings?" Ulani murmured softly to Ulrich.

Ulrich shrugged, then glanced at Lore. "Do you have any idea what they're talking about?" he asked, one eyebrow raised with curiosity.

Elnara looked at Lore curiously, surprised by his shared information. But she looked down at the twins and asked them, "What strings do you mean?"

Both of them blinked up at her and simultaneously pointed off in each direction. "There and there," Storm said, looking at his mother as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.

"And there and there and everywhere," Starr added, pointing in other directions.

"But not inside so much," Storm went on.

"No," Starr agreed. "But outside here there are lots of them!"

"There's lots at home by the fountain," Storm said thoughtfully, looking at Starr.

Starr nodded, looking back at him. "And there are some by the fountain at the cafe," she pointed out. Neither of them were really paying attention to anyone else anymore, really - they were mostly just discussing between themselves.

Elnara looked at the others, bewildered.