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"Uhm..." Donovan nearly twitched at the sight at the thing.

He didn't know what was more embarassing seeing his daughter cart around a miniture size him, or to see Kara hug it at night sometimes. Both Kara and Lin really liked that doll.

"Yes."

Earendil chuckled. "Wouldn't that be nice," he commented. He took a quick glance around the room. "Anything else?" he asked Lin, knowing that only she would know if there was anything else she might be leaving behind.

Earendil knew what that pout was for, and he couldn't help but laugh a bit at it.

"When you first came and we said you had to go home," he told her with a grin, leaving the room and starting down the hall with them following, "you pouted and said you were going to wait here until Daddy came back. Now he's here, and it's time for you to go. I'd like for you to stay longer too but that's just not possible."

He reached over and ruffled her hair affectionately. "Besides, I'm sure you'll be back to visit me, won't you?"

Donovan chuckled at that, though he felt sort of sorry for Lin, seeing as the next time she would probably ever be allowed back, knowing how the time went. Earendil might be already with a girlfriend if he didn't have a family yet, and if not any of those at least with responsiblity.

"We'll see," he murmured.

Of course he was coming back but it would be easier for him to use the Borderlands rather than the castle.

"Probably," Donovan replied, "The time difference is extreme to say the least. It can't be helped, time passes so slowly in our world."

He had to admit that, it would be many years if not more. After all it wasn't like a reason dropped into their laps for a reason to go.

"No one could ever forget you," Earendil grinned, poking her nose.

They reached the bottom of the stairs, and he led them down the hall towards his grandmother's study. She wouldn't be in there, of course, but that was the way to the labyrinth's main entrance. He had taken Lin and Nina through the walls, of course, so they wouldn't have been this way before - but he didn't know if it would be a good idea to show off the many ways through the walls to everyone. After all, they were supposed to be secret.

"Even if it's a very very very very very ... very long time!" Earendil laughed. "We elves don't grow old, Lin, and we have very good memories. You spend a lot of time with Sir Valdemar - you know he's the oldest of our kind, and he remembers everything!"

He raised one hand and pointed it at the door. His hand glowed blue, and the door opened silently: then he lowered his hand and led the others through.

"Ah," he smiled, "but if it's going to be a while for you, then let me give you something ..."

"You having to leave was sudden, too," Earendil agreed. He didn't slow his pace, but continued to walk.

As he walked, he held one hand in front of him, positioning the other just above it. A blue fire appeared, glowing like lightning, and just as it had the day they had played 'Stalking' in the labyrinth, it twisted itself into the shape of a five-petaled flower. It solidified in that shape, and cooled, and he turned around and held it out for Lin to take.