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Haradhel followed the sounds to their origin, which was the stairs. She of course was at the very top of the stairs, on the fourth floor, so when she looked down to see Lin making her way painstakingly down the steps, mostly what she saw was a little black bob of hair.

She made her way down the stairs towards Lin quickly and silently, smiling softly to herself.

"Would you like any help?" she offered, squatting just above Lin on the steps.

Lin paused from where she was on the step to look up in surprise to see Haradhel on the stairs. She didn't even hear her coming! Though, if Lin really had thought about it, she could never hear an elf coming so it should have been of no surprise to her. She looked at her, and mused on that as she put her hands on her tummy.

It was getting sore, but she wanted to go down the steps by herself, but these steps were bigger than back home.

"Hmm....." she looked down the steps once more, "Okay!"

Haradhel smiled warmly and reached down one hand beside Lin, holding it so that the girl could climb onto it.

"Maybe we should see about adding some blocks to the sides of the steps for you," she commented thoughtfully. "Makes smaller steps, though you'd have probably two or three times as many steps to climb ... but at least you'd be able to do it on your own."

She smiled. "What do you think?"

Lin crawled onto Haradhel's hand cuddling up on it now that she didn't have to keep lifting herself down. She looked up at the woman with a large smile, the idea sounded like a lot of fun.

"That would be great! I never climbed stairs like all the big people before!"

"Like most other elves on the ranch," Ulani remarked dryly, "Elberon ..."

She broke off as if reconsidering what she had been about to say. A moment later, she said, "He's just a guy. He does find it amusing to make Aliya do more work than she needs to."

"So does everyone else," Aliya frowned. "Most of the time I don't mind it, but sometimes it's a little irritating. Except Amdir, he's the only one who doesn't do that - but then, he's pretty much the only one who has no way to make my work load increase."

"That and he's quite a decent fellow," Ulani added.

"Well... I try to climb up and down but someone always finds me and carries me the rest of the way up because it's a long way up because we're on the top floor," Lin explained.

She always tried anyhow it would be good practice for her she thought.

Aliya shrugged her shoulders at Feng. "Sometimes it's fun when everyone plays tricks," she told her friend with a thoughtful grin, "and it really doesn't matter, I mean I like everyone there anyways!"

Ulani rolled her eyes, then chuckled softly. She knew exactly what Feng had meant, but she also knew exactly how clueless her daughter was.