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"Ready!" Celebor said brightly, hopping off his chair and wiping the milk from his upper lip with the back of his hand. "Where do we gotta go? Is it far? Is it big? How long does it take to get up there?"

Daeron put Lin up on his shoulder, then took Celebor's hand and brought the two of them out of the Dining Hall and towards the castle's back doors.

"It's not very far," he told Celebor patiently, "but it's a long way up. You'll see when we get there, all right?"

He wasn't used to endless chatter at all anymore - it wasn't that he minded or anything, but there was really no point to answering questions that would be answered anyways in just a little while.

"We won't see the top of the mountain going on our own power anyhow, not for a long while yet," Lin was more calm about it, but she had been up there and she knew if she was going to try by herself then she wasn't going to get all the way up there.

However if she got half way up there, then she would be happy because that would be very far, for her anyhow.

"Well, you might be able to," Daeron smiled down at Celebor. "In fact, you probably could, if you keep a good pace. The steps are really big for Lin, though, so for her it's like climbing ... well, a mountain, for each and every step."

"Throwing arm?" Celebor asked Lin in confusion. "What does that have to do with anything? I don't get it."

And he frowned softly.

"Oh, I see," Celebor nodded. "I think."

He paused to think about it carefully. "Then that means," he murmured, "that it won't help me to get a good throwing arm, because I won't have to climb like that because it will be just like normal stairs for me."

Hmm.

"I like running," Celebor agreed, puffing his thin chest out proudly and grinning. "Yeah, I'll work on making my legs stronger, then I'll e able to run really fast, just like Mommy does!"

He paused. "I don't know if Lore runs, though ... do you?" He glanced sidewise at Lin.