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"Aw, that's sweet," Celeborn grinned. "Your father and your mother must have something very special. It's always something special when it goes like that."

He looked up again. "It looks like it's going to rain ... perhaps we should go back inside, I don't have duty for a while."

"If it's a storm like we sometimes get out here, the puddles are going to be enormous," Celeborn nodded, heading back towards the barracks. "I just worry for your father and Halmir, and the children they're with, then ... though they're far enough away from here, perhaps they won't get the rain after all."

He opened the door and headed into the darkness.

Celeborn coughed. "Um ... there will probably be quite a bit of thunder, and it gets loud," he told her apologetically, making his way upstairs. "If you'd like, Haradhel could sit with you in the cellar of the house, it's underground, you won't hear much down there."

He made his way up the stairs and towards his quarters, opening the door and stepping inside.

"Pardon the mess," he apologized, setting Lin on the floor and closing the door behind him. "Make yourself comfortable."

"Sometimes it doesn't feel any different from being outside," Celeborn told her, heading over to the shelf at the end of his bed and picking up a flint and steel set. He lit some candles that were set about the room so that there was some light before putting them back and heading over to a cupboard.

"Especially if you're on an upper floor of a building, it gets a little scary," he went on. "The wind sometimes sounds as if it's moving the entire building, even though you know it's solid."

"I don't know why," Celeborn murmured, taking something from the cupboard and heading back over to Lin, "but this area seems to get the worst storms out of anywhere in the Four Lands. I've never seen storms like we get here anywhere else."

He was holding a little pouch, and he opened it and held it out to Lin. "Candy?"

Celeborn grinned and closed the bag. "Very much," he replied warmly, returning the pouch to the cupboard he had gotten it from. "Every time Ulrich goes to the city, I ask him to bring me back some. He's good at picking the good kinds - though I suppose that comes from having children who also like candy."

Celeborn smiled. "You have quite a few brothers, don't you?" he asked, taking a seat on the edge of his bed. "Though I would imagine that your world has a much larger supply of sugar. It's hard to come by here, it can be pretty expensive."