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Earendil chuckled at that. "And when I tickle her, or toss her up in the air and catch her, or when I rock her ..."

He ignored the look that Donovan and Kara shared. Lin wasn't watching them, he was sure, and he knew now that they were supportive of him, at the very least. And with Kara's assurance that he would no longer be teased by Donovan, he wasn't terribly worried anymore.

Earendil blinked at Lin. "Follow me?" he asked, surprised. "When did she try to follow me?"

He hadn't seen her do that yet - though to be fair, most of the time, either he or Lin was holding her, unless she was tired of being held and in that case she didn't follow anyone.

Earendil gazed out at nothing in particular, trying to remember back, whether or not he had seen Miyuki following him anywhere. "Follow ..." he murmured thoughtfully. "Follow ... I ... can't think of when that would be, which means I must not have seen it ... so ..."

He blinked, suddenly realizing what that meant. "When I went to the kitchen to help Shael?" he asked before he remembered that they weren't the only ones in the room.

Maybe she hadn't overheard anything ... it was a faint and desperate hope.

Earendil smiled easily. "Ah," he chuckled, "that would be why I hadn't realized it." He laughed again. "Still, it's interesting to know. I have to admit, I'm a little sorry I missed it."

But his nonchalance was all an act: he knew Lin well, and he could see in her face that there was something she didn't want him to know, and her hesitation told him that it was something to do with that particular event. There was only one thing he could think of: that she had overheard at least a part of his conversation with Shael.

But she hadn't said anything about it, and seemed as if she didn't want him to know ... he wondered how much she had heard, and what part. Obviously not enough for her to realize that it was about her ... she wouldn't be acting the same then, would she? And she would have understood the teasing of the day before, wouldn't she have?

Earendil chuckled, not missing Lin's reaction to his not saying anything. "Well then, I feel honoured," he grinned. "Really, I do. Of course, if the daughter of my best friend didn't like me, well."

He chuckled again. "That just wouldn't be any fun, would it?"

Maybe he would take her aside later and ask her about it.

"I was also hoping to get around to visiting Celebor eventually," Earendil offered, "and perhaps a second attempt at a visit with Ulani and Ulrich? Since it seems that I wasn't quite in the mood for it yesterday."

He made no mention of the teasing, or of what had happened, making it seem as though the entire disaster had been his own fault.

Earendil chuckled. "Perhaps another time, I can actually meet him," he grinned. "He sounds like an interesting fellow, to say the least."

But that was the danger when one wanted to visit someone who could be on duty at any time. There really was only a one in four chance of actually seeing them: they could be home, on duty, training, or sleeping.