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"Not... many though I do have some old shoes that was out grown," Helen replied.

Though he knew he was going to have to re-calculate all of Andarien's future growths.

"At any rate, you'll need boots if it's winter, and I hav-had them... I'll have to switch out both boots and shoes."

And Andarien would need boots, he already knew this.

Helen chuckled, it was true he did already do a lot (in some ways he was just as bad as Shiro).

"True, though I don't make boots and shoes, I order them from another shop, that is out of my ability range, and while Trisha deals with a lot of things, she doesn't make them neither. So you are right about that, you can wait until you go, but you do need at least one good pair of each, just so you're not walking barefooted...."

He hummed at this and then added.

"Though both your mother and sister like doing that well enough."

Helen chuckled, he had always figured it was just one of those things that passed from mother to daughter because his mother was like that too.

"Fair enough, I'll see about getting at least those shoe replacements by tomorrow, but if you need boots, you'll have to borrow."

He could probably get one, but when they're in Spring instead of Fall, getting boots would be more difficult.

Helen nodded in agreement, the sooner he did this, the sooner he could finish everything off.

"Let's do that then," and he got out his measuring tape.

It took a while to re-measure everything, especially since he wanted to be able to double check all the clothing he had set aside of Andarien to make sure they fit properly.

"Why thank you," Helen smiled brightly.

He was glad that Earendil did, it was a very different style of clothing but it seemed to suit Andarien just fine.

"As I was telling Andarien, I will at least get him a new pair of pants before the day is out so he won't be too uncomfortable, and I'll have the rest of the clothes ready before you all leave."

Lin had taken a while to pack up, with the help of her family they had given her raw goods to trade in case she would need to with promises to bring back something some of her siblings wanted.

Gaia was great, but when there were some things they made from scratch there were better things in the places Lin traveled. Besides, who knew what the family would find.

"We're heading to Tor Karad I believe..." she looked to Earendil for confirmation.


Miyuki was the last behind them, as she was talking to her grandfather Donovan. Donovan handed her some blank scrolls and told her quietly that she could use them once she had an idea of what to use them for. As far as information went, scrolls weren't as good as books, but for runes, scrolls could hold far larger rune arrays and be opened quickly while still being somewhat light.

That or she could make some nice wall scroll paintings.

Miyuki put them away and thanked him. She was going to have a lot to keep her busy, between the egg she still carried with her and all the new lessons she was to learn on her own.

"Hmm... that's a good question," Lin murmured thoughtfully.

With the time difference anything was possible, she certainly wouldn't except them to wait on them.

"I guess we'll see once we get there," she grinned.

"This is certainly going to be interesting..." Ryu commented from the doorway.

In coming were the mer twins and Nadia. They had wanted to come along because they wanted to know what the ocean was like. Mers were said to originally come from an ocean, but they had never been to an ocean before.

Naida leaped forward and tackled Miyuki who nearly fell over since Naida was much, taller than her.

"Oi! You're heavy," Miyuki pouted.

Feng looked around, "Where's the neko trio?"

Lin was about to ask what Kaito was doing yesterday when she realized with Kaito and Shiro traveling with them for the whole trip (unlike Feng, Ryu and Naida), there was probably a lot they had to prepare for.

"So you all have everything?" Kara asked.

Both she and Donovan were there to see them all off. Since they wouldn't see some of them for months or in even a year.