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Celebor nodded. "Aliya said she would be here this afternoon," he agreed, "I'll ask her then. You have to talk to her though too, don't you? What does she do to help with the hunt?"

Obviously she did something, or else Donovan wouldn't have to talk to her, which Celebor knew he did.

Finally, the door to Celeborn's quarters opened, and the man appeared, framed by sunlight from his open window, his white golden hair disheveled, eyes droopy with sleep, wearing nothing but a blanket wrapped around his waist.

"Oh, Donovan," he grinned, suddenly looking more alert. "And ... Celebor, if I'm not mistaken. Er ... sorry about my appearance, I just got off a twelve-hour overnight shift, I was sleeping ..."

He stepped to the side. "Please, come in," he invited them. "And ... don't mind the mess."

As usual.



Aliya sighed at Haradhel. "You always say that, but I still haven't seen any proof of your suspicions," she replied. "I still say he's just absorbed in his work, and that's it."



Adan blinked innocently at Lin. "Why not?" he questioned her. "I go outside by myself all the time in the day, why not at night? Besides, I really won't be alone, I'll be around Feng and Ryu, and then I'll be back inside! It's not like I'll be going far away from the house or anything."

"Never do," Donovan murmured, "It won't take long Celeborn, you know the drill by now. Though there will be one change."

With that he held up one finger to signal to wait a moment as he waited for Celebor to step in and him into into an explaination about Ulani.

"It is how we track the slavers," he explained to Celebor, "Part of the slaver tracking comes from reports, but the exact location comes from Ulani showing us through magic, the only other person who would know the exact location is Aragost. To be fair... though... there's very little if anything that man doesn't know."


"Well.. I'm told that night is more dangerous than day, and Daddy says you can't be too careful, especially at night," Lin replied.

To her that was good enough, and the last visit only confirmed that there were dangerous things out there.

Haradhel looked as if she wanted to add something more, but a warning look from Aliya stopped her, and instead she changed the subject.

"So how has everyone at home been?" she asked cheerfully. "How is Elnara and her family?"


Arwen's eyes skimmed over the page, and she read quietly to herself first before looking back up at Miyu to give the translation (since of course it was in Elvish).

"It doesn't say a whole lot," she shrugged. "Just that she became a constellation to protect her family from the war. I think it must have been the first big one, the one that Elros and Sir Valdemar were in, because that's the only one I know of that was bad enough for people to have to do that."

"Oh!" Kara smiled brightly, she had remembered she did have something to tell them, "Elnara has another son, Shiro, as it turned out. Kaito wasn't alone on the street, he has a brother named Shiro, and it's so odd because he's the opposite of Kaito in a lot of ways."

Though it probably had to do something with Shiro's gift to remember what he was told once.

"Do you think Yami-san was in the war too?" Miyu asked.

Unlike Lin she had not realized how old Aragost was, he was an adult and that in itself was old enough.

Celebor nodded certainly. "I'll be fine," he said confidently. "I trained with the Home Guard in the Southland for over a year, and Captain Eldrin said I was equal with any of his graduates. I'll be fine."

Of course, Eldrin had said a lot more, but Celebor didn't see that as necessary to mention here. Mostly warnings and the like, and lectures on when and how to use his skills. In a case like this, though, he was certain that he would be justified in the use of his skills.

Celeborn smiled then and nodded. "If Captain Eldrin is satisfied, then I must be as well," he announced solemnly. "Yes. I believe you will be fine."

At least until it came to his first kill.

"At any rate, I suppose we will be heading out first thing in the morning?" he questioned. "The two of you riding, and I'll be taking the cart, as usual?"



Aliya smiled as well, but there was something she was curious about.

"You said they were opposites," she commented to Kara. "What do you mean?"



Adanedhel grinned. "Don't worry," he giggled, "it'll be okay."

He stuffed the rest of his cookie in his mouth. "You wanna go find Elros? I'm gonna go find Ara-kun, maybe we can go together, I think they're both in their quarters."