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"You think that's bad, then the next song is worse," Lin told him in utmost seriousness that it was nearly laughable, "It goes... This is the song that doesn't it end, yes it goes on and on my friends..."

She then added.

"And it loops around so you sing that intro again and again and.. well you know."

Elnara laughed. "Now there's an understatement!" she giggled, hugging Lore's arm as they walked. "There have been some good things that came of it, though, that I'm sure my uncle would have hated - the Westlanders found out about we Southlanders again - it had been so long since the two races had had any sort of contact that they'd forgotten about us - and now the Eastland, where the dwarfs were, there's a mixture of Westland and Southland elves, and they're mixing as if there's no difference between them ... which, of course, there isn't. But my uncle started the whole thing trying to keep our race ..."

She coughed.

"... pure ..."

Lin laughed at that, even though she was not fond of those songs herself, "Nina will be disappointed, she finds them a lot of fun. As much as she likes riddles and talking in riddles all the time."

"There are still a lot of people who think that the races should be kept separate," Elnara shrugged, "but most people nowadays think that there is nothing wrong with them mingling. Unfortunately, my brother Ruel is of the opinion that the race should be kept pure ... which I think is the root of his hatred towards me and Mother, because as far as he's concerned we're not pure elves, let alone pure Southlanders. What that makes him in his own mind, I don't know, but that's how it stands."

"Well I don't know riddles," Lin replied back, "So I can't help there," she pouted a bit at that.

Oh well, maybe there was something else they could do.

"Are you good at telling stories?"

Elnara smiled warmly and leaned her head against Lore's shoulder, slipping one arm around his waist. "Well, maybe he'll come around someday," she murmured back in an equally light tone.

They reached the front entrance, and Elnara led the way outside towards the gate.

"Yay!" Lin nodded as she made herself comfortable, "After all you must have some stories to tell. You've been to a lot of places."

After all, her mother always had interesitng stories, even if she wasn't always willing to tell them.