Answer:
Two in a whole and four in a pair. Six in a trio you see. Eight's a quartet but what you must get is the name that fits just one of me.
I'm orange when long I'm white when short. What am I?
So simple, that I can only point. Yet I guide men all over the world.
Upon your lonely journey I accompany you, whether you travel through endless mountains or seas of blue. Wherever you go, I keep your place. Lost you're not, when I'm embraced. What am I?
I go up and never come down no matter how hard you wish. As I get higher more wrinkles crawl onto your face.
It has no top or bottom, but it can hold flesh, bones, and blood all at the same time.