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Lin chuckled, "And tiring... Though I don't think Mom imagined that the family would grow so big."

She wondered how her mother had ended up adopting so many children, though she was beginning to understand it just happened. So it seemed.

Lin laughed at that and agreed, it was an unusually large family.

"Come on," she finally got up, "it's a buffet style, like at the New Year's celebration at the Borderlands. We'll grab Andarien on the way."

Though she looked over to where he was to see if he had asked his question yet.

Miyuki slid off her seat to follow them, just in time to hear Andarien call back to their mother.

Lin chuckled, "That is good to know, well since your grandmother said dinner is ready, it means we go up to grab the food. It's different from other dinners, but with so many people here, it's the easiest way to make sure everyone gets served."

To self serve that is, it saves a lot of headaches.

"But no desert gets put on the plate until you've had something from the main course section," she told him.

Unlike the New Years where it didn't matter.

"There are the sandwiches, pastry puffs and the buns on the left table are all the main course foods," Lin pointed to it, "There's also a bit of fruit and yogurt there too."

She pointed to the left, she knew that Andarien didn't like sweet stuff, but some of it didn't look like desert or were made with Andarien in mind.

"On the right are the deserts, the fruit tarts, and see that stand with all the little cakes? That's the main desert, but it gets to be a decorative centre piece while everyone is eating, see how it's decorated with the light dusting of powder sugar to look like gears? There's also some buns with some sweet paste in it. It's not supposed to be overly sweet, but you can judge that later."

Normally, Lin would have pointed out that Andarien could go up for seconds if he wished, however since he was also getting food for Eon as well he would probably be carrying more than usual anyways.

"Sure, let's go grab a plate," she motioned for him to follow her.

Lin had gone back to get her own plate of food, while Miyuki slid back into the seat next to Andarien. Her plate had more savory buns than it did sandwiches.

She took great pleasure in taking a large bite out of her bun.

They were also joined by Mi and Long, since neither of them had actually met Andarien yet.

"Hello," Mi bowed her head slightly.

He seemed quite shy to her, but if she recalled Miyuki was the same at first so she figured just give him time to get use to them.

Long, however didn't have this logic and gave Andarien a wide smile, "Hi! It's great to finally meet you! Having fun?"