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"Your dad does," Kaito told her, not sure if she realized the fact. He himself hadn't heard Earendil using the human tongue yet, but he knew that it was part of royal education, and he was certain that Earendil would know it. So sure that he was willing to tell Miyuki that as a fact rather than as a guess. "If you don't want to bother your mom, you could ask him."

Though he was also aware that it seemed Miyuki was growing more and more independent, especially now that her parents were occupied with her new baby brother, who was still less than a week old. Or maybe it had something to do with her growth, he wasn't quite sure. But he liked it.

"But if you really want," he added with a smile, "I could teach you. River has said she wants to learn as well, perhaps I could teach the two of you together."

He nodded to where River was practicing with her wooden bokkan, making swing after swing repetitively.

Kaito laughed and ruffled Miyuki's hair. "Sure thing, kiddo," he grinned. "I had a feeling you might like that. Though maybe you should take after her in a few other things." He winked at her. "I know you should be practicing your weapon a bit more, too. I've never seen you practicing. You know you'll never get better unless you do."

He tapped his chin and looked up at the sky thoughtfully. "Besides, I thought your parents had gotten something for you when you improved enough ..."

He winked at her.

Kaito looked innocent. "Oh, your ada showed it to me," he said nonchalantly. "Said something about ... he wanted to have it on him for when you were ready, rather than taking the chance that you might not be ready when you left Amon Darthir."

He grinned at her cattily, his tail flicking back and forth. "Seems he was right."

Kaito chuckled. He was always amused when Miyuki gave him that look.

"Well," he grinned, "I'm sure you know there are other weapons that you can be learning. Why don't you ask your dad if you can learn something else instead? You don't have to pick right away, of course, you only know a small handful of weapons - but if you wait maybe you'll find something you do want to learn. Do you think he might be willing to give it to you as a reward for learning another weapon instead of the dagger?"

Kaito chuckled. "Then why don't you ask your dad about it?" he asked her. "River's practicing right now anyways, so we won't be starting language lessons yet."

He looked around to see what Earendil was doing. It seemed that Earendil was taking care of his blade while talking with Lin, who was holding a fidgety Andarien.

Kaito waved as she headed off, then sprawled out on his back to take in the sun.

Earendil chuckled at Lin and Andarien as he polished his sword. It was something he hadn't done in a long time, something he should have done much sooner, and something that had very much needed to be done.

Andarien squealed when Lin did the peekaboo, and he reached up with both hands and tried to grab hold of anything he could reach - her cheeks, lips, chin - or promise necklace, which seemed to be one of his favourite things to suck on.

Earendil chuckled again as Andarien stuck his tongue out and licked Lin's promise necklace, then turned to Miyuki, his eyes bright.

"Yes, Miyuki?" he asked warmly, setting his sword aside so that she wouldn't accidentally get hurt on it. He patted his lap, inviting her to come and sit with him.

While Lin was distracted, Andarien managed to get two fingers through the cage of the promise necklace and yanked down on it hard to get it closer to his mouth.

Earendil smiled at Miyuki. "There are a great number of things you could learn," he told her. "Bow, staff, rope, fists ... I know you're not fond of the blade, though it is important to know at least something of it."

He stroked her hair gently. "You don't want to continue with the blade."