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 Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 7:29 pm
Broog got up, and took it off without a word. he could already see where all the tugging and wear and tear had caused some of the metalwork to bend and tighten and didn't need to see but the drop of his mistress' blood on it to get it off her.
"Broog fix it. won't take broog longs...you's want to watch and sits wit broog?"
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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 7:52 pm
"Do you think they're dead?"
Her sister gazed at the two deep in reverie and shook her head. "No. Their chests are moving, I think. They just had a lot of fun last night and wore themselves out."
"fun? Like games and stuff?"
"Yup. They had a food fight."
"But we aren't allowed to do that."
"Yeah well, welcome to the unfairness of being a kid, kid."
"I wanna be a grown up. I wanna throw food like they did." Though she paused again and tilted her head. "Who do you think pulled the mattress off their bed?" Jumping up and down for a moment. "Do you think we were robbed? While they were playing?" She giggled and clapped her hands. "Maybe by a dragon."
"No. Dragons like gold anyway and shiny things." Then a shake of her head, "Why do you always come up with such stupid ideas."
"I don't."
"Yes you do. We've never been robbed. There's too many traps around to be robbed."
"Well, why else would they be in reverie under the table, huh?"
"They...wore each other out throwing food? Look, there's stuff all over the stone. He's going to be cleaning big time today."
"It smells funny in here, too. Kinda like the horses do after they make babies."
The girls locked gazes for a moment, both had the same thought as their eyes mirrored each other. "Eeeewwww! You don't think...?"
"They aren't horses, stupid. They wouldn't...do....that...."
"No but..."
Then another shared glance. "Ewww! That's just icky."
Zykariel stalked in after his sisters and grabbed them both around the middle startling both girls into shrieks. Clapping his hands over their mouths to silence them quickly, he pulled htem against his chest. "What are you two doin-" Seeing his parents, he made a face and shook his head and released them. "Let's go. You aren't allowed here right now."
"Mommy and Daddy had a food fight."
"That's not all they did..." A shake of his head and he shoved on his sisters' backs. "Hush. You're going to jolt them out of reverie and then you can explain to them why you're here and not at Twilight."
"You're not gonna tell on us, are you Kariel?"
"Give me one good reason why I shouldn't."
"Daddy doesn't like tattletales. He tattles on them to Mama and she smacks you with her spoon."
He thought about it for a moment. "That's a good reason. Fine, I won't tell on you if you get out of here."
The girls turned and left and he shook his head once again at the sight of the house, gagged, and turned and left as well. Hopping up on Destyny, he put Lyssie in front of him and let Faatallon take the horse the girls had snuck out on.
"Kariel?"
"Hmm?"
"What else were they doing in there?"
He was quiet for a moment. "Dad was giving Mom a gift."
"Oh." She was quiet a moment before turning again. "Think she liked it?"
He chuckled at his own private joke and hugged his sister. "I think she absolutely loved it."
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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 7:57 pm
Soon as it came off, she threaded that belt she had around her neck twice to accomodate for length before buckling it securely. Okay, that felt a little better...she had just adapted and grown comfortable to the feeling of something encircling her neck so closely that withouth anything there she would just get more and more frazzled until she drove everyone and herself up the walls. "No, that's alright. I have little ones to attend to. Just...do what you need to do to it...but don't change it, alright?" Didn't want to watch that...it was weird enough that Malik wasn't the one taking it off and she needed to distance her mind. Besides...when Broog was working he tended to be quiet and preoccupied...she did not need quiet right now. "Just send someone for me when you're done." Thusly upstairs with her to chande and deal with the extra children she had today.
If one thing could be said, he was certinaly up and sitting patiently in his crib with Kelligrin in reverie next to, waiting for his mother just usually like every morning. Sometimes it was Keely, but usually it was mommy. Okay...wating and poking at Kelligrin's toes some...he seemed to curl them when he was in reverie and that was amusing.
He was quite in reverie still face down on his bed, one arm hanging off that Yinn was taking great delight in tugging one. Jaws wrapped around the boy's wrist, he took to pulling and tugging...and edging Malikhai out of bed inch by inch as the boy continued to reverie. Was amazing down gentle the draithix could be when he wanted. Though he duly have an odd round of sounds as the teenager more or less fell off the bed and right on top of him, merely blinking stupidly for a moment. "What happened?" A look around his room...well where was Zykariel?
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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 8:32 pm
Kelligrin whimpered in his reverie and twitched lightly before he rolled over and hugged the stuffed dragon closer to his body. His toes curled and uncurled and then he moved his foot against whatever was poking him. A moment later though, he blinked and pushed himself to a sitting position in bed. "Mommy?" Glancing to the spot where his parents always were. When he didn't see them and realized he was still at Twlight he started to sniffle and then cry.
Zykariel stabled both horses and tossed an arm around each girl's shoulders, calmly ushering them back into Twilight. They needed breakfast and then somewhere to get out all that loose energy that was just bundled up inside of them. He knew the D'vinn's usually slept in a lot later than they were used to so he traipsed into the kitchen and ordered his sister's and himself some food.
Zahara was not nearly as sensitive to the runics that Sevilin employed as he himself was but the giggling and shrieks pulled her out of reverie just the same. She glanced up in time to see Zykariel shoving the girls outside and shook her head. Readjusting the blanket some to be more comfortable, she lightly traced a heart over her husband's chest. Either he was deep in reverie or hanging out in the in-between. She wasn't quite sure.
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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 8:44 pm
He blinked, not really understanding why the baby was now crying next to him. "Mommy's coming." Because she was, he could feel her walking down the hall and look there she was coming around the doorway now. "Mommy!" Pick me up gesture.
Piper had gotten herself dressed, giving a tug to the belt around her neck a moment as she made her way down the hall, peeking in at her oldest who was laying on the floor on top of his draithix. "Good thing you can't crush that. Get up, you have your studies to do." Yup, she was getting kids up early today. Crying made her ears twitch and she continued on to the nursery, frowning as she noticed both the Inthara girls were gone. But for now over to the crib, picking up both baby and toddler, "Shhh, Kelligrin, don't cry. It's alright. How about we get some breakfast, hm boys?"
PIcking himself up off the floor at his mother's command, he got himself up and got showered and dressed, stretching some. Grabbing his sword, he strapped it to his hip and picked up Yinn, making his way downstairs and to the breakfast table. Intaharas were already up it seemed. "So how'd things go last night?"
He was in fact in between everything before he fully woke with a snort and startled expression, blinking a few times as if trying to remember where he was. Hm, that hadn't been a pleasant reverie. Then a yawn and he merely more or less snuggled back down against his wife, an arm around her drawing her close as he mumbled something or other against her shoulder before a light sigh.
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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 8:57 pm
Malik twitched a bit..then shot up in bed. looked over to where his wife usually was..and noting something red that wasn't hair dye. a poke at it...it wasn't much...barely noticable.
took him thirty seconds after that to get dressed and armed...then looking for his wife. and so help whomever might have had the gall to cause her an injury.
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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 9:04 pm
"Mommy?" But Aunt Piper wasn't his mommy. He cried for a moment longer, laying his head down on her shoulder and rubbing at his eyes. Though like most children it wasn't too difficult to distract him. "Food!"
Zykariel yawned and took his plate with a smile and nod to the servant then dug in happily. He'd always been able to get pancakes and waffles at the D'vinn house. To this very day his mother refused to make both at breakfast time. He had no idea why she was so stubborn on that one point but she was. He glanced up as his friend and partner came down fully dressed and ready to go it seemed. Though an amused chuckle emitted from the teenager. "Shouldn't I be asking you that question?"
"My mommy and daddy had fun last night. They had a food fight and everything." Lyssthyren offered taking another bite of her scrambled eggs. "And then they went to reverie under the kitchen table. But that was messy too..." Though seeing her aunt a moment later, she gave a wave then frowned. "Aunt Piper, how come you're wearing a belt around your neck?"
Zahara was well used to his reactions by now and simply squeezed his arm against her body. "Alright, Raven." She yawned. "You're with me. We're married and have kids and your sisters will never again be able to touch you. They think you're dead. Which is good because audiences are never fun." Another sigh as she settled back in and closed her eyes. "Even though we just had one..."
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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 9:27 pm
He rolled his eyes. "I wan't the one drinking until the pub ran dry or coming on to every woman that gave me a look. Though I'm sure you had more than enough fun with all of Kaelin's friends that were all over you." Getting himself some waffles and eggs to start off, and odd look to Lyssie's information before turning a look to his mother as well and indeed giving her a funny look too. "New fashion statement?"
This was odd, there was no shiny collar around mommy's neck. Mommy always had that on. Even when she closed her eyes at night for a long time. Thusly tug tug, but he was duly set down in his seat, and Kelligrin placed beside him as well, the both of them getting offered up food and bottle respectivly. "Waffles and pancakes!" Both, that was exciting.
Oh good, the fussing was stopping because she really couldn't put up with fussing at the moment. "Yes food." Shaking her head at the large group of children all perched at the dining table this early and half of them digging into food already. A slight squint as Dhairiss tugged on the leather around her neck as well in his own questioning. Putting the children down, she got them settled and food, turning her attention to the the common question in the air. Which she was touchy about. "Since when are we all full of questions. You should be eating...and you three, I was informed that you all were out of this house before even the surface had dawn." Head turning in a seemingly random direction a moment as bond threads seemed to get picked, spiking with the mix that was Malik's feelings at the moment. Uh oh, he was riled up already. "Dining room, A'mael."
Another mumble or two against her shoulder as if he was talking to her but probably really wasn't, just mumbling to do so. A few more moments of silence before he propped on an elbow and looked down at her with somewhat of a lazy smile on his features...and the blindfold from the night previous still on, but shoved up on his forehead under his bangs making them stick up in odd fashion. "What do you mean we just had one?"
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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 9:42 pm
"Don't ask." Rolling his eyes and jerking a thumb at his sister. "No you were the one testing out your own skills on Kaelin. I always party and it always goes the same. Can't help that women seem to like me. I get it from my dad, I'm sure. Mom said he was damn near irriesistible to most and a few even tried to take him." He glanced up at his aunt and then gulped. That didn't sound good. "I took them out on an early morning ride, Aunt Piper. They were awake and bouncing with energy so I thought a ride would do them good. Especially since no one else was up yet. I was with them the whole time."
Kelligrin took the bottle and easily sucked half of it down before he started picking up the pieces of pancake he'd been given and ate them as well. He was mostly quiet, enjoying his food with an occasional word or two thrown in just to be part of the conversation and not forgotten about.
Darn those servants. Not Aunt Piper was upset and the promise she had from Zykariel about not telling wasn't even worth anything. Aunt Piper would tell and Mama wouldn't do anything to Aunt Piper. But her brother jumped in to save them and she nodded enthusiastically. "He was! And we weren't goign to get in any trouble. Honest."
Her lips tilted slightly as he remained lost in his own little world. She knew he wasn't really paying any attention to her but it made her happy to think that her words could soothe him somewhat. It was a nice feeling, really. Her eyelids fluttered as she sensed him moving beside her and she glanced up at him and chuckled. Toying with the ends of the blindfold, she pulled it off and stretched her arms above her head, pointing her toes and stretching like a cat for a moment. "Hmm? Oh, the girls were just here. Zykariel too."
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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:02 pm
"You're a bad liar, Zykariel Inthara. and what happened to you, 'Chev? where's your necklace, and why did I see what I saw on the pillow?"
Yes, Malik came in, glancing around with that look that made the help very, very nervous. the somebody is going to go to one of those 'special' rooms and for a long time.
Broog was almost done, and working on enforcing the clasping and metal so the wear and tear wouldn't do this again anytime soon. nope nope, bad necklace to hurt the mistress. if he could he'd take away some of it's shiny metal to punish it. but he mistress didn't want that.
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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:10 pm
Dhairiss wasn't interested in the conversation at the table, just at making a waffle pancake sandwich with butter, syrup, and bacon in the middle of it, and eating it with his hands, also helping Kelligrin from time to time by tearing up pieces that were too big on the baby's plate.
"Testing my skills..." Like there were any to test. Personally he thought last night didn't go to well. At most he'd made a friend and not a girl who had a genuine interest in him other than just being said friend. His girl catching skills weren't up to par. "Yeah yeah, chick magnet. Heard it all before. But if you must know...I don't think nothing is going to come out of it." He would just tell himself he didn't have time for girls rather than be frustrated by them. And then look at that, mom wasn't pleased this morning.
"Yes you did, and you took them out without telling anyone you were doing so. Which yes means you were snitched on, but that's besides the point." Crossing her arms lightly over her chest, "And it doesn't matter if you were with them the whole time. Something could of happened to you or all of you and nobody would of known now would they? And don't think you can say the horses would of gotten someone because things happen to them too." Mother talk. Turning her body and attention to Malik for the moment as he made his presence known, and made the help leary. Walking over she placed a hand on his chest, in reassuring fashion that was probably more for herself, seeing as she was always jittery without her collar, before letting her hand go to the back of her neck again and rub lightly under the belt she had substitued in place of the metal. "Almost fifty years of wear and tear. It's alright A'mael." Probbaly really wasn't, but she was pretending it was. Thusly turning a look over her shoulder to the children again.
He blinked against as his bangs fell in front of his eyes, obscuring his vision a moment before he blew them out of his face with a breath. Though he leaned over once more, pressing a kiss to her lips as she stretched then sat himself up...where upon doing so, whacked his head on the underside of the table. That probably really hurt, but he had a high pain tolerance and merely rubbed at the spot on his head that should be sore. "I thought they were at Twilight. Is one of us cazy?"
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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:22 pm
He cringed, "Don't call me that. They'll tattle and I'll get smacked with a spoon for using such a degrading term." He frowned for a moment at Malikhai. "I thought you and Kae really hit it off. She seemed happier..." Though he glanced at his uncle and aunt and shook his head. Technically it wasn't a lie, he did go riding with them and they were full of energy, that just hadn't been his plan in the beginning. In answer he merely pulled out a linkstone from his pocket. "Just in case. Or bonds. Someoen's always telling my mother to use them. Besides, my father has us all runed and I can take care of them. We were fine, Aunt Piper. Really."
Kelligrin reached over to Dhairiss' plate and plucked a piece of bacon from it, chewing on it happily as he watched the action around the table. This was more like his house anyway.
She shook her head and bit her lip on the warning she'd just been about to give before he moved too fast for her. Catching his head, she pressed a kiss to the spot he'd bumped and then sat up herself, carefully even though she wasn't tall enough to bump her head. "No we're not crazy, Raven. They are supposed to be at Twilight. But you know our children, they very rarely stay in the spot they were left. Even when they were little, everything from the doorknobs down belonged to them and they were going to explore it. They are just free spirits, kind of like me." Tunneling her hands through his hair she chuckled, "That's the reason you runed everything they ever owned, remember?"
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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:40 pm
Malik looked at his wife, and gave a slight nod.
"Alright."
then a look to his son.
"Talk today after your studies. Good talk, and some news for you."
then sitting at the table and sitting his wife down next to him.
"But right now it's breakfast time. lets get something to eat and everyone can relax."
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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:50 pm
"Well, you are." Shrugging his shoulders in inconsequential manner, after all it wasn't like he was going to get hit with a spoon. "She was happier to leave the party and not have drunk guys hanging all over her." Taking a moment to grab some sausage and add it to his plate, shaking his head as his friend continued to argue with his mother and try to prove her wrong. Road better left untraveled. But his attention shifted to his father as the man took a seat and addressed his first born. "Sounds like I'm going to have a good day then, I think. Well, at least there's no hangover on top of it." Blessing.
He blinked as his back was stolen, but merely made grabby hands at sausage till someone passed him one and tucked that into his pancake waffle sandwich to replace the piece of bacon. Of course he also reached over and took the bacon from Kelligrin, taking a moment to break it into smaller pieces for him before plopping the pieces back to the baby's plate. "Too big."
She nodded to him, well he took that well...then again he still had the ability to either pretned he didn't care or bury it. He couldn't hide anything from her but he could try...just like he knew that she was trying to not have a breakdown right now...was it sad that she was so dependent on the feeling of the circle of metal around her neck that she even had to replace it with something when it wasn't on, or that she'd never take it off if she had the choise? Probably. But back to children trying to fight with her and her watching them all eat. "Bonds can be blocked or severed, as can linkstones and runes nulled and broken. The point is whether or not you were fine, you still left. You don't leave my house unless I know where you're going." Sure Malikhai 'snuck out' from time to time...but she could easily bond track him, it came natural to her.
"This is true...should of remebered to tell them to tie the children's ankles to thier beds to keep them in one spot after they took thier eyes off of them." Giving a chuckle and not seemingly fazed by the knock to his head, merely turning his attention to her once more and giving a chuckle before leaning foward to nuzzle at her lightly. "Have to keep track of everything that's mine. Makes me feel better. But speaking of feeling, do you even have any left?"
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