Welcome to Gaia! ::

"Daemon is, in a twisted way, my third grandfather," Elnara smiled at Lore. "Kara's father ... he somehow managed to get himself trapped in his wife's sword and then, even more mysteriously, transported himself here almost three hundred years ago, our time, sixteen or seventeen years in Gaia time."

She couldn't help but wonder if Seeker was a seer like her mother ... she certainly seemed knowledgeable enough, and mischievous enough.


Celebor tried to copy the movement as well, but even though he did it slowly and made sure he had a good tight grip on his staff so that he wouldn't drop it like Lin did, he still managed to goof it up, smacking his shin with his staff.

"Ow," he mumbled, more out of reaction than pain (since he hadn't hit himself hard enough for it to hurt anyways). "Nuts."

And he held the staff up and tried again.

Haradhel smiled softly to herself and set her staff aside.

"Let me help you," she murmured to the two; and slowly, she helped each of them go through the motion once slowly, showing them how to do it bit by bit.

"Now try it again by yourselves, slowly," she instructed them.

Probably as long as your wife and daughter knew, though they probably knew before I did.

Daemon replied back cheerfully, since he tended to mainly have visions about things that were a threat to lives, unless he tried, in which it gave him a headache sometimes.

Gion chuckled inwardly. Daemon, sometimes you are as bad as my wife, he rebuked his friend. Sometimes worse, because half the time you live in my head.

Then he turned his attention back to his sister and the man who was with her. He was like no other elf he had seen before, and - again - neither Nadya nor Lotheriel had said anything about him to him.

Welcome to our home, he signed to Lore before stopping to wonder whether or not the man even knew sign language. Just in case, he wrote it out in the air - in the Gaian letters that he had learned all those years ago.

To Elnara, he just grinned. Time for more talk would come later, and Nadya would be able to explain so much better than he himself could.

There was a laugh from inside of Gion's head, it was Daemon of course. Why not, Daemon thought it was just as funny.

Well of course, life wouldn't be fun without a few surprises.

Gion chuckled silently, though Daemon was able to hear it, and grinned at Lore.

It looks as though my sister hasn't changed at all, he told Lore. Though to be fair, the last time I saw her was the first time she had seen me since I lost my ability to speak.

They still didn't know what had caused it, and once in a while there was a rare, miraculous moment when he was able to utter one or two syllables, but nothing more.

Come on up to the house, he signed, you can have something to drink and rest a bit. You must be exhausted after such a long trip.

"I'll go get Mama," Seeker offered, taking her brother's hand and dragging him off in the opposite direction.

Elnara started to follow Gion up towards the house as the two children disappeared.

"So when did you and Nadya get married?" she asked her brother curiously. "No one at the castle even knows that you did! And how old is ... Galdor? Was that his name?"