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"Mommy, can I have a sleep over?" The sidhe (who had been severely punished for the levitation of a certain pretty man) asked timidly. She hadn't seen any of her friends in a long time and it was quite obvious that she was getting cabin fever. The gardens were enough, usually, but it didn't seem like they were doing the trick at the moment.

Ianna thought a moment, "Well, who do you want to invite?" she asked, looking over at her daughter from behind the book that she was reading.

"Uhm. Zah, Yashi, Lee, Mal, Xtol and Kishi?" She named all of the older children. Zah she didn't really remember meeting but Yashima liked him so...

The silver haired woman nodded, "Sounds decent enough. We'll go send out invitations, then."



The invitations in the mail, all signed personally by the young child (with a lot of help from her mother with the proper letters) was giddy. The past two days had been spent preparing lists and plans for the party - and the Sidhe couldn't wait for the fun and games to begin. But still, she had an entire week to wait.

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OOC Notes:

This sleepover will start on Friday, September 8th and run until Thursday, September 14th. ICly, this will last only the 8th, 9th and 10th of the month. The extended date is so everyone can continue to RP. The 8th and 9th will be the first night. The 10th and 11th will be the second. The 12th and 13th will be the third. The 14th will be the morning they leave. Please do not post until I write the opening post on the 8th =)

Children will be in attendance without their guardians (Meaning Malen and Ianna get to handle all 6 brats alone >D).

Neveah was, needless to say, quite baffled when the invitation for a slumber party turned up in her mail box. She was even more surprised to read it was from someone whom she was pretty sure Zasalamel had not yet met, nevermind heard of. The butterfly had seen the girl once before, but Zah...never.

Still, who was she to turn down making a social butterfly of the socially outcased Drow son of hers?

So, on the day and time given on the invitation, Neveah showed up with Zasalamel alone...she managed to talk her old comerade into babysitting the deer twins until she got back. Despite this being the first time Neveah would be parted from her charge, she didn't seem to break a sweat over it.

Zasalamel, on the other hand, was deathly nervous, but he managed to bite his lips and make only the occassional whine of protest over the whole sleepover thing. He'd be at a girls house. All weekend. Without his mother! The horror! The WORST thing that could ever happen to him! Of course, he didn't know there were other boys going...as far as he knew, it'd just be him and the girl he'd never met.

And now, as he stood clinging to Neveah's hand infront of the looming front door of his weekend torture, he buried his face into Neveah's legs and whined. "Ilhar...Nau ssinssrin ulu alu...Nau ssinssrin ulu alu...!" He repeated pathetically, on the verge of tears by now.

"Aww, sweetheart..." Neveah keened out, picking up the whimpering dark-skinned child. "It'll be alright, you'll see! Be a good boy for Ilhar, okay Zasalamel?" Of course, Neveah had grown to know that 'Ilhar' was something like 'Mother', so she used it.

As she comforted the whimpering Drow, she wandered her way into the Headquarters.

Kishi didn't quite see the point of having been invited to the sleepover after all she lived here, still she supposed it would be fun to sleep with a whole bunch of others and stay up late and play games. We'll it would be fun as long as no one fought so hopefully everyone who showed up would get along.

While she didn't look girly , Kishi had for put some thought into her appearance., well at least enough so that the clothes she wore were ripped, stained or covered in dirt. Most people wouldn't call a clean shirt and jeans putting thought in your appearance. Still she wasn't mucky or grimy and she'd even cleaned all the fingermarks off her wand which she refused to go to the sleepover without.

At the sound of the portal activating she quickly left her room and ran down the hall to see who was there. It couldn't possibly be her father since he'd only just left. Upon spotting Zah, Kishi squealed, her friend had grown since she'd last seen him and he looked even cooler than before . However he seemd upset and that was a bad thing ." Hi Zah what's wrong can I help?" If someone had upset her friend she'd give them a good firm whacking with her wand untill they apologised

Zasalamel's grip on Neveah only tightened when a girl walked over to them. This must be that girl he'd be tortured by all weekend! "Ilhar...Nau ssinssrin ulu alu..." He tried once more, but it was a futile attempt...he was detached from his Guardian and placed on his rear on the floor infront of the girl.

"Hello, Coailiann! You've gotten bigger since I last saw you...You're so cute!" Neveah complimented the girl, acting as though she didn't notice the way Zasalamel was still quietly repeating that Drow mumbo-jumbo from his seat on the ground. "I have his bag here, and a compiled list of Things that make him scream, to save a headache." Because spending a weekend with someone like Zah could possibly be a very, very bad thing.

Zah had given up trying to tell his Mother he didn't want to go. Instead, he stared shyly at the girl through the shadows of his low hood, gumming on the pad of his thumb and trying his very hardest to disappear from the place, or to at least make himself look smaller than he really was by curling his limbs in tight against his torso. Then, Kishi came in. Some relief flooded over him, but his mind still told him that even though Kishi fought with him for fun, she was still a girl.

Further relief came when another boy walked in. Good, he wouldn't have to spend the weekend surrounded by girls! With a slow wave and an equally slow shake of his head in response to Kishi, the Drow toddler nonchalantly shifted a little closer towards the other boy. Right now, he didn't notice the boy's tail or scales or wings or anything unusual about him...Zah saw him as a boy and a comrade of sorts. That was good enough for him!

"Oh look Zah, now you'll know somebody here!" Neveah tried one last time to cheer him up, after giving out a round of greetings for those who had entered. But when it didn't seem to work, she just turned back to Coailiann. "When should I pick him up, again?"

Coailiann eyed her younger sister for a moment. Why did she invite her again? Oh. Right. She lived here and it wouldn't be polite not to do so. Besides, she wasn't THAT bad...That was admitted with a grudge and she simply smiled.

Daddy wanted her to be polite.

And when Airaka showed up, Kay couldn't help but smile. She hadn't seen the wyvern or his mother since the whole Baby Making incident. Had he GROWN? "Hi, Xtol! Hi, Airaka! Sleeping bags are not needed, really, but if the others ever wanna just pull 'em out and put 'em in the lobby and watch the big TV it'd be nice for him to have his own!"

She was sure there were some extra sleeping bags SOMEWHERE in this large place. If not, she wondered if the magic fridge would make one? Probably not. And if it did, it'd likely be made out of cheese.

Or chocolate pudding. Wow, that would be an interesting one.

And then Neveah spoke and the young child lifted her head to look at her, "Thank you, Miss Neveah," she spoke politely, giving a little curtsey, "For the thought and the compliment. I'm sure he'll have fun...And...Uh...Ten in the morning!" she chimed, thinking that time as good as any.

Kay paused as she saw Yashi and her smile widened. He had come! Did that mean that he didn't hate her anymore?

IT HAD to! Oh, he loved her again! Giving a happy little bounce, Kay moved over to them and hugged Patrick before turning her attention to the foxkit. He didn't look happy...She'd have to change that!

"So many people! This is going to be FUN...We can be as loud as we want, too. Mom said she soundproofed her room for anything but really loud screaming because of pain or something and the only other person to worry about doesn't matter."

She meant Nic, of course. He could deal with the noise or get out for all she cared.

Xtol blinked at the two boys, surprised by their inching towards him. He uncurled his tail from Airaka's leg, and wiggled his feet so he was a little bit further away from them. His eyes shone with bright confusion, though he turned his attention from the drow boy to the older boy. He had a tail, and weird ears. And he seemed just kinda familiar…

Airaka smiled nervously at Patrick and the other woman, and raised her hand in a almost half wave, before nodding her head at Coailiann. The other woman seemed more cautious then she had, but then again, Xtol had been much more quiet since he had become a toddler.
"Alright. I'll be back at ten. That okay, Xtol?"
The boy turned his golden eyes away from the fox-boy to Airaka, and nodded his head, simply stating,
"Go."

The red heads face flushed and her nervous grin returned. Her mouth opened and closed, and her fingers twitched, her nervousness of leaving the boy alone for so long finally showing through her pervious calm appearance. Her mind seemed else where, imagining all sorts of horrible things happening to the boy, when he poked thigh with the tip of the sword.
"Go." he commanded, again.
The woman returned to this world, and blinked down at Xtol one last time, before nodding her head.
"Be good and have fun. Bye," she replied, before turning around and pushing open the door.
She stood there, keeping the door held open for Patrick and the one named Neveah.

Xtol turned his eyes back to Kishi and Kay before him, giving the two of them an almost expectant expression. He had completed his job, getting Airaka out of the way, now they had to explain what this sleep over thing was, and why he had need to bring so many things. Which reminded him.. He let the sleeping back drop to the floor and then turned his attention to his back pack. He had practiced getting the thing on and off, it was so difficult with his wings. Both of his small hands tugged at one side of his back pack, attempting to pull the thing off. He had almost fully succeeded in taking the thing off when he lost his balance.

His body tilted towards Zasalamel's, and his tail dropped the wooden weapon, shooting out, and latching on to Kishi's leg in an attempt to regain balance. Yet his balance didn't want to seem to want to come back, and his wings spread out wide, as he fell on to the drow boy. While the drow boy seemed fairly taller then him, Xtol was most likely the heavier one of the two. He felt his ear slam into the boys shoulder, and clenched his eyes shut, not having the time to think.

Kay recieved a tight hug from the dark mind, stroking at her hair. "You're looking gorgeous, Kay." Patrick smiled, dipping down to kiss at her temple. "Don't mind Yashi - he's turned into a total grumpy buns and isn't too fond of girls. Just be patiant with him, ok? And - there's a present for you in his bag. So be a good girl."

Neveahs voice made him glance up through, eyebrows arching. Well! "Drinking?" he blinked, giving Airaka a grin as well. "Well, Airaka, you have a bossy little sprogglet there. I didn't know he'd even grown, hun! He's big but.. bossy. Yashi is too. He's grumpy too."

The fox got a grin and a blown kiss from the scientest, "You be GOOD, Yashi! Your stuff is right outside the door and don't you DARE be mean to any of those girls, ok?"

Yashima ignored his tousan, twisting around slightly just to see Xtol topple onto his little drow friend. Golden eyes widened and then slammed into narrow slits, pushing the wevryn off of Zah and hauling the drow up against his chest. "It's okay," The kitsune demurred against the others head, pulling the hood down over his eyes.

"Are YOU hurt?" His chin jerked at Xtol, moving to crouch by the scaled child. "Why did you--oh." Kishi was eyed with wariness but he didn't attack her. He didn't snarl or jump back - she wasn't sneaking up on him this time. It made it all better, really.