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"Wonderful," Aliya commented, though there was no mirth in her voice. Then she smiled. "Ah well, why don't I just show you around then until we find her? We've got to run into her somewhere, after all, right?"

She looked around and spotted one of the hired hands heading from the Ranch House in the direction of the barracks. "Oh, there's Elros," she smiled. "We can ask him if he's seen her, he's very observant."

He was also incredibly tall. Elros, easily the oldest elf on the ranch, was very close to eight feet tall, and made everyone look short. He had very fair hair and icy blue eyes that seemed as though the could look right down into your soul - and who knew? Perhaps they could. He knew things that no one else did, but shared little of his knowledge voluntarily. Aliya, personally, found him to be a little creepy - but she liked him nonetheless.



"I see," Halmír nodded, though his tone made it perfectly clear that he was still confused. He smiled again. "At any rate, you are my employer's daughter, are you not? I assume, then, that it means that your father would be here as well."



Ulrich nodded seriously at Lin. "Yes, it's rude of people to speak a language that not everyone there knows," he agreed, "although I do also admit that sometimes it can't be helped, if there is no language that everyone knows. On the other hand, Ruel is the type to use that to his advantage, and say rude things, thinking that it doesn't matter because the subject of his rudeness can't understand him."

He shook his head sadly. "Elrohir told me that Elnara came to visit ... and about how Ruel reacted, how he acted. The fool ... he should know better."

Lin mused on this, she had a feeling she knew what Elrohir had been talking about. She looked up at Ulrich thoughtfully, she wondered if she really wanted to know what Ruel said to her.

"If it makes you feel any better..." Lin ventured, "Celebor punched him... in the jaw."

The first thought to spring to Ryu's mind was that the man would give Donovan a run for his money in who could keep a straight face the longest. The second thought was a wondering of what was going through Elros' mind, somehow he felt like he was being weighed. Though for the life of him he didn't know why he felt that way or why if it was true Elros would do so.


Feng blinked wondering if there was something about Aliya that reminded him of something. Perhaps she looked a bit out of a place? That was always quite possible.

"So...." Feng ventured, "You know Aliya?"

"You're never going to live that one down are you?" Triton asked Donovan.

Though he knew the answer to that one, poor guy. One of the few times he actually acted like a person instead of a hard a**, and Lin catches him.

Ryu nodded back before hurrying to join Aliya on their search for Feng. He just hoped that his sister hadn't gotten into too much trouble while he was watching Aliya.


There was a slight tingle down her spine, for his look reminded her vaguely of her brother Helen. Only, he didn't look like he was going to eat her, which is probably want put her at ease.

She thought about it for a moment, had it been Donovan or even her brother he would have asked what was the favour. Unfortunately this was Feng, "Okay."

Cindy coughed, for she had heard the story actually, it was pretty hard not to. It was difficult enough to get privacy in the inn. Though asking Lin where the logic lied in sweetening.. well.

Triton blinked, and he blinked.... he stared at his little sister. The frightening part of it, from a child's point of view that explanation made a lot of sense, which kind of frightened him.

"How did you come up with that sort of logic?" he muttered.

Ryu looked and was glad to see his sister, it looked like she got along very well with others. Which he wasn't surprised, she was always friendly he thought.

"So that is the friend you were talking about?" he asked with a smile.

"Take my likeness?" Feng inquired she thought about it for a moment or two, until she realized he meant her picture, "Oh..." she nodded slowly, "I'm fine with that."

She had never been asked before if someone could draw a picture of her, so she was quite surprised. Though she thought, perhaps he liked art, like her sister.

Aliya laughed and nodded. "He's the only one who really goes out of his way to talk to me, and he's always so funny." She started leading the way over to them. "He's a little odd sometimes, but he's an amazing fighter ... not that you can tell by talking with him."

She smiled. "He's been painting my portrait since the day I met him ... a few months now. I can't wait until it's finished ... he never lets me look at it. He says a work in progress is not worth looking at because the beauty can never compare to the finished product."



Halmír clapped his hands like a child. "Thank you!" he said excitedly. "Ah, you have no idea how hard it can be to find such a stimulating subject, the beauties of this place wear thin after a while ... to be able to capture your beauty forever on paper is an honour, a great honour ..."



Ulrich tried not to laugh again and looked at Lin. "Well ... he did seem happier when Idhril gave him extra cookies," he admitted, "but Eärendil is quite correct about his father. There is very little if anything that can be done to make him any sweeter. The only one who even has a chance of that is Lúthien, and even she doesn't always have luck on her side."