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Chapter 42:
It was apparent to everyone that the two brothers were going to be the best of friends.
Only Ranaya was beginning to feel left out. Almost the whole day had passed and Lando had been with Naylandi the entire time.
Sharissa tried to assure her it was only because it had been so long since the two had been together. Ranaya tried to reason with herself that she was being selfish. She knew she was. Naylandi had been without Lando longer then she had.
She had went back into the tree house and sat on the window sill. The first time at the Tarachi Village she felt like an outcast.
There she stayed for hours looking out the window, and eventually she fell asleep.
"Ranaya?" she heard her name whispered into her ear. It sounded like Lando but wasn't she still in Zachavi?
"Ranaya, father is here. He wishes to meet you," Lando tickled her sides.
Ranaya snapped awake and realized her surroundings. No she was in the Tarachi. She should have known that to start with. Why did she always wake up thinking she was dreaming? Sometimes she even thought she was only dreaming that Lando was there with her.
She shrieked in laughter as Lando continued to tickle her. "Stop it!" she gasped between fits of laughter.
"What do you say?" Lando began to tickle her all the more.
"Let me go, pointy ears!" Ranaya cried out, her words making Lando laugh as well.
"No, that's not the magic word." Lando refused to let up his tickling torture.
"Blondie!" Ranaya threw another playful insult his way. Her arms flailed about trying to unattach the elf's hands from her sides.
"Not it." Lando smiled.
"U—un—uncle!" Ranaya gasped out.
"That's the one." Lando stopped and sat down beside her.
Ranaya shrieked as Lando bent down to kiss her, thinking he was going to tickle her again.
Lando snickered. "Father is here. Ready to meet him?"
Ranaya sat up, feeling serious. "Are you sure he will like me?"
Lando cupped his hand under her chin to raise her head up so he could look her in the eyes. "Don't worry. He isn't against humans just the ones that threaten us. He will like you." His blue eyes boring into her green.
Ranaya smiled in response.
"He'll be ecstatic to know Naylandi has been returned. I still cannot believe I have an older brother. It still seems so unreal," Lando said, looping his arm with hers.
"I was surprised myself when I realized who he was." Ranaya began to remember how long Lando had been with Naylandi seeming to forget her and frowned. She quickly masked it before Lando saw.
He led her down the stairs from the tree house down to the crowded village. Everyone was gathered in a circle.
As they got closer Ranaya realized what the elves were gathered around an elf astride a silver horse.
Ranaya blinked and took another look at the supposedly silver horse and noticed the great sharply pointed horn. She was staring at a real live unicorn that she had always thought was a myth.
She couldn't keep her gasp at bay and Lando looked down at her and smiled. "That is Adair; he is my best friend and companion during war. I let father use him when I went off to Lakishea." Lando gestured toward the unicorn.
Ranaya couldn't stop staring at the unicorn and had to make herself move her eyes instead to the one who rode him.
Naylandi came up beside Lando.
"Father!" Lando called, pulling both Ranaya and Naylandi with him to meet the elf in the middle of the crowd.
"Landrian?" the elf dismounted the unicorn named Adair.
"Yes, father it is I," Lando smiled.
The older elf then stood there in front of the three. "It feels like ages instead of months, my son." Lando's father embraced him.
"This must be the lovely Mrs. Landrian Brightstar." The elf smiled before taking Ranaya's hand.
Ranaya was looking for a cold greeting but this had been the warmest she had received yet. She curtsied, stumbling slightly.
"It's nice to meet you, sir."
"Call me Landrial, my dear. After all we are now family." Landrial insisted before turning toward Naylandi. "Now who is this young man, Landrian?"
"It's Naylandi, father. The brother you never mentioned to me. He came back from Zachavi with Ranaya and another elf named Sharissa."
Landrial's eyes widened, "My son?"
Naylandi nodded. Tears were clearly visible in both son and father's eyes.
The village was very quiet as they embraced and wept in each other's arms.
"Your Mother would be very happy if she were here to know that you were safe and home again."
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