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Luthien smiled. "I'm glad you like it," she told Trisha warmly. "It's changed a great deal since Elnara first came back ... it was still young and the plants were not very large then. But it has been about forty years since then, so the plants have grown and we have gotten many more ..."

She laughed softly. "And that of course attracts more butterflies and the like ..."



Earendil grinned at Lin. "Excellent!" he said brightly. "Then I shall return shortly!"

And he disappeared once more.

Sir Valdemar smiled and leaned back in his chair. "While we're waiting for him to return," he said softly to Lin, "would you mind terribly if I asked you a few questions?"

"I'm back you think so, to be honest I had no idea what I was doing," Lore admitted.

Even though ideally a person only got to propose once in their life time, they normally at least heard about the process before going into it. Lore had only paid lipservice to the books titled romance, but never had given it serious thought. Of course anthrpology gave him a unique outlook on it, but nothing very helpful.

"I guessed what I was doing."

Serenity passed the pond and brushed some of the branches of the tree to the side so that she could pass by without it swiping at her face. Just ahead now was the brook where she liked to do her drawing.


Elnara laughed at Lore. "Well, you did it all perfectly," she told him with a wide grin. "I honestly have no idea what would normally be done here either, but I can't imagine any better way."

She led him towards the flower garden, where roses in every colour imaginable were blooming, filling the air with their scent.

"So that's how..." Trisha wondered if it was an underground source of some type, "That would be interesting to see."

She looked around fondly at all of the flowers, it looked like spring, maybe it was spring. There were so many flowers in bloom, she was sure Yukiko would just love it here.

"It must be a lot of work... there's a garden back home, but it's no where near as hot."

Oh, now that was a good question, when was the last time since she talked about Aragost? She had a bit of trouble of calling him Lord Aldrich to be honest.

"He's doing okay," Lin replied, "He's probably still teaching Adan everything he knows, but one day Adan is going ot know what he needs to know. I think Ahren spends time with Aragost too, but not as much as Adan does."

It did seriously make her wonder though if anything was going to change between her and Aragost now that she was older. Not that she spent a lot of time with Aragost, except when she was spending time with Adan. Scratch that she spent quite a number of times learning from Aragost.

"It always gives the others a double take knowing us kids like being with him," she admitted, "Though he has his moments where he's good with adults too, just not in front of other adults and not often."

Luthien smiled softly. "Hot?" she repeated in a soft voice as they passed by the pond. "I suppose, if you're not used to it ... to me, this is spring, one of the cooler times of the year. The only time I have seen snow or ice was when your brothers made some for us when they first visited. I barely remember trees ..."

She led Trisha past some hedges and to where Serenity was waiting for them, already busy sketching. There was the small brook trickling through the garden, lined with small, white sparkling stones.




Sir Valdemar nodded thoughtfully. It didn't really tell him much, just about his relations with Adanedhel and vaguely with the other children.

"But what about his temperament?" he pressed. "Has he become ... more friendly, less friendly, angsty, irritable, happier ... what?"

Lore chuckled at that, "Well... I'm sure there might be such a flower.... far away. It does seem strange that Gaia for all it's unique plant and animals wouldn't have other colour of roses."

He chuckled at the thought a bit.

"Which reminds me, it's time to start a garden back home too."