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She shifted slightly to get a little more comfortable with the headboard biting into her back. Glancing down briefly at their son, she kept threading her fingers through his hair and nodded brushing a finger over his forehead where that rune had lit up like a beacon. "I suspected as much. Zykariel would be the only thing that could distract you enough to let someone get a hit in on you. Nadai said the poison cloud was a knee jerk reaction but that's what really got you. After that it was child's play to get you down and beat you. You didn't tell me about the other things though. Why not?" She gazed at him out of the corner of her eye, noting his breathing patterns and the duration of the cough. Another potion before he went down for reverie tonight. Zykariel and Piper needed one as well.

He snuggled deeper, pillowing his head on her breasts and listening to his friend read the story. After a moment though he pushed up and walked over to his bed, pulling Rawr off and walking back over, curling right back up in the place he had just vacated.

Zahara had already placed an order for dinner for everyone in the house while she had been down there so she wasn't surprised when two serfs entered bearing trays. Three plates of chicken nuggets and macaroni and cheese for the kids, with milk of course and pudding for dessert made by Zahara herself. Setting two mugs down by Sevilin and Zahara the serf looked to her to see if anything else was required and she shook her head. At the same time a full meal was set before the D'vinn's bedroom door with a discreet knock before they left. A hearty stew in a special bowl that would keep it hot for the Lord and Lady of the house with plenty of meat and vegetables and cinnamon spiced bread on the side with a bottle of bloodwyne just in case. Settled into the corner of the tray was a potion with a note on it.



And she hadn't forgotten the other two in the house. For Isle and Arthur pasta primevara with angelhair and a cream sauce interspersed with plenty of vegetables to give it a nice colorful look that would appeal to taste as well as Isle's crazy senses. Lightly toasted bread complemented their meal as well and she included a bottle of wine for them as well since it went so well with pasta.

Zahara watched as the children set down the book and moved over to the table knowing better than to try to balance plates in their hands and on their laps. She set Rawr off to the side where he would be safe and picked up one of the mugs and handed it to Sevilin with a spoon then picked up the other one and took a careful sip. "Just try to eat some of it. It's not that hot but it's not cold either. If you want, I can get you something cold like.." she glanced at the kids and lowered her voice but spelled it just in case. "I-c-e-c-r-e-a-m."

He was acting like it didn't bother him but he wouldn't look her in the ye and she knew it did. Now wasn't the time to have this conversation though so she just said softly, "I know what happened, all of it and I don't think any less of you for it." Then she flexed her wrist a moment and leaned back against the headboard again smoothing down her skirt so that nothing was revealed that shouldn't be. She cupped her hands around the mug and chuckled, "That's because I haven't eaten anything." Before slanting him a look, the weariness that had suddenly settled into her showing through and raising an eyebrow. "I remind you to eat. Trying to put me out of a job, are you?" Thus glancing over at those kids to make sure they weren't throwing food or playing in it.

An indescribable expression flickered on her face for a moment and then disappeared and she lifted the mug to her lips again and drank down almost half of it. She had only been teasing him but he wasn't really getting that now was he? "Oh well..." Of course he wanted to go home and take Zykariel as well. Things hadn't been resolved between them and she had just now decided what she wanted to do. How silly of her to think he could read her mind and suddenly know. Studying her hands for a moment she stalled for time and then cleared her throat. "Actually, I was thinking he should stay here for a few more days to keep Malikhai entertained since Piper and Malik are not in the best of form...and I could use your help as well..."

She was so relieved she let her breath go and then realized she had been holding it waiting for his answer. A shake of her head and she waved her hand dismissively. "You don't have to worry about any of that. I just need you to watch the kids and keep them out of trouble. I don't want Zykariel playing rough yet but I can't keep them locked up in the nursery all day again. Piper, however, is staying upstairs all day tomorrow still. She's got a concussion and I'm not about to let her make it worse. So I'm going to have my hands full with her and I can't be worrying every second what the little ones are doing." She took the last few sips of her soup and set the mug aside glancing over at the kids again.

Zykariel had finished his dinner and wiped his mouth with his napkin like he was supposed to before coming back over to his parents and climbing back up with a yawn, settling back against them. Didn't matter to him that they had shifted slightly, he just rearranged himself, his head against Zahara's chest but the majority of his body in his father's lap, Rawr tucked into his arm and lay there. He couldn't help but smile when his mother's fingers once again began playing in his hair.

Lharika picked Malikhai up seeing as he was done as well and climbed up on one of the other beds with him before picking up that book they had been reading before. Opening it back up she began to read once again.

She chuckled softly seeing as Lark had begun reading all over again and she didn't want to disturb her and shook her head. "They often are, especially when it comes to healing." Her gaze moved down to the child and she could tell that he was falling into that half reverie state. She wanted to get a potion down his throat before he pased out so she lightly lifted his head and plucked one out of her ever handy skirt pocket.

"Yup just a little tired." He rubbed at his eyes and yawned then shook his head when he saw a potion being removed. "I don't want anymore. My head doesn't hurt and I ate all my dinner..."

Zahara lightly pet through his hair. "I know you did but this will keep your head from hurting when you get back up too."

"But I'm not ready for reverie..." he said with a yawn, his eyelids already drooping.

She bit back a smile and whispered something to him that made him open his mouth and drink it down. She settled him back down against them the way he wanted to be and handed the empty vial to Sevilin so he could set it on the table next to the bed. Lightly she resumed the soothing motion of petting through his hair until she felt his full weight resting that signalled he was in reverie. Listening to the story for a while, she suddenly got the urge to get up and roam. She hated to move the child but she really did need to go check on things and make sure everything was alright. Hiding a yawn herself behind her hand, she started to shift the child.

Well it seemed that Arthur was able to kiss Isle again, and another good thing was that there was no one around to suddenly pop in and bother them in this moment, which made the elf pretty happy. But he was kind of surprised when he felt a hand grab the collar of his shirt but that made him stay in the kiss, a good sign on his part and so he just kept on kissing the elf until she shove him away. With a small smile Arthur just stood there looking at Isle as she got up, giving him a seductive look which made him grin and the flash of gold got him more excited. "Hmmm really now? Alright then..." Walking up to her the elf wrapped one arm around her waist and gave her a quick kiss before leading her out of the room. "We could just stay in my old room...no one would even think we'll be in there..." He said as they walked down the hallway.

Moments later the door to Arthur's old room opened and both elves entered, once they were in the younger elf closed the door behind them and locked it, his grin still on his face as he walked over to the blue ear tip elf. "Well now that we are all alone we can spend some nice quality time together..." He muttered softly as he grabbed her by the hand and pulled her close to his own body, kissing her soon afterwards as they both slowly went to the bed.

She sent Sevilin a grateful look since she really didn't want to disturb the little boy. He had had a long, hard day and he needed the rest. She easily left the bed, crawling over Sevilin's legs and bent down removing Zykariel's boots and tucking Rawr closer to him. She brushed a kiss over his forehead and then turned towards the other two. Pulling out pajamas and whatnot she let Lharika finish the story and then helped Malikhai into his while Lark changed into hers. All the kids were hitting that about to reverie stage and it wasn't hard to tuck them in and watch them go. She brushed a hand through both children's hair and adjusted a blanket before kicking off her own boots and slipping back into the space she had recently vacated. The serfs could come and get the dishes when they wanted to, she had no doubt they'd be gone by morning. She shifted down and found a comfortable position then had fully intended to bring the subject from earlier up but her mind took over and pushed her weary body into reverie, her head falling to rest against Sevilin's shoulder, one hand on Zykariel's arm.

He watched her go about being all mother like, which was kind of odd really but he didn't say anything, he merely shrugged himself down into a more comfortable position and finished up his food by the time she wandered back to the bed...and apparently decided to take reverie with the kids. Well...he was a mattress and a pillow...fun times. Picking Nym from his head and resting him on Zykariel's tummy he wriggled down in bed till he was laying down, though hadn't really disturbed neither Zykariel or Zahara and took about staring at the ceiling. Yup, he'd be up all night.

He was cute wasn't he? Acting all in control and what not. It in intriguing...good then she liked to be on the bottom most of the time wasn't it? Though knowing Galesen he'd learn a thing or two about this woman...like he was a hair puller. So his pretty brown hair may be causing his skull a bit of pain whenever this ended. Guy's fault, or that's what she always said. But she'd let him find that surprise out by himself. Though undressing him as well as he undressed her, leaning back and giving him a cocky challenging look. "Let's see what you can do Galesen, impress me."