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What did i do to deserve this? Pash asked the heavans as he sat on a park bench watching his children play in the grass a few feet away.


You ruined a good person's life with your carelessness.

The words came swiftly and echoed in the mans mind until he winced. Pash had not forgotten his mistake , the reason he now held a semi human form. But he also knew that said mistake was not the reason he had come to posses these children. Only that his bosses now held them over him life a prize. If he could raise them well he would be free to return home.


Still, as he watched Anao struggle to stop her brother from eating grass for the fifth time he wondered if he could do it. He loved his children but surely they were the most difficult ones to walk the planet.

Well, aside from her tendency to space out and make the odd time distortion Anao was fairly easy to handle. Despite the mop of cranberry red hair that many claimed meant a hot tempter, his amber eyed daughter was full of cheer.

Owen was the troublesome one. Long ears that gone in everything, a tendency to chew anything he came into contact with and a fear or attraction to random sounds and vibrations. There was a pattern to Owen's responses but Pash had yet to completely decode it which often made his son unpredictable.

Hopefully the other Guardian he'd invited didn't have near so many problem with their charge. Of course that was the point of the meeting, to commiserate while the little ones played and plotted.

Pash looked up and smiled at Micheal, " It's no problem I understan- Owen you can't eat clover from the park." He warned voice shifting to an authoritative one. One he hoped Owen would obey at least for the moment.
Returning his attend to Micheal he sighed " I'm sorry about that but as i was saying I understand."

With Anao distracted by something in the sky Owen has set his sights on a pretty purple clover plant. It looked very tasty. Only at this father's words did he stop reaching for it to stare at him and the strangers beside him. Particularly the colourful one his size.

"Mm, ah that's Anao she's from somewhere else entirely." Pash replied while giving the other guardian a subtle but noticeable to the trained eye examination. He was inked, not uncommon these days and Pash was curious about their meanings. Often words and symbols tattooed on people had hidden meanings but the former Angel was a bit too prudent to ask about such things.

Anao hearing her name looked up and over and the two adults, an ' I didn't do anything' look clear on her face.

"My ears" Owen said firmly as he reached up to pet them. He liked his ears, they were his, she couldn't have them.

" Do you think that's a mainly a female thing or perhaps just your luck in child's personality?" Pash had very little experience with females in general never mind childlike ones. " Anao has moments of fussiness but it's not constant or normal." Of course Anao was also usually a bit too distracted to focus on being self centered all the time.

Owen was not used to such forwardness, no one outside his family had ever tried to touch him before , though grocery shopping tended to bring our scary people who looked like they might. Or ones who made strange nonsense noises and called him funny names.

Innately Owen's instincts told him to freeze up, if he stayed still chances were he wouldn't get hurt. " Still he manged to fight it enough to talk if not move. " Be gentle" he warned. Though they were big and a bit thick and floppy his ears were still sensitive and Owen didn't feel like having them hurt.

Pash nodded at the other man's statement. he had known parents who were simply incapable of strictly raising a child. It certainly didn't make them bad people just lenient. Still for all her proclaimed bratness Tansi seemed at least remotely well behaved.

Amber eyes were focused intently on Tansi as Anao watched the other girl's interacting with her brother. she was more curious then jealous, after all she could touch Owen's ears all the time and they shared a special licorice bond. Still she watched to make sure that that strange girl didn't do anything Anao deemed bad to her brother.

Owen stayed still during the petting but not from fear, he had relaxed at the first touch and found himself unbothered by it. He smiled when she had proclaimed him soft as if this was a new revelation. Mostly he was just happy for a compliment.

" Different" he stated calmly, there wasn't anything wrong with Tansi's ears they were just different than his much the same as how he and Anao had different ears and she and their father had different ones. Owen didn't know if anyone had the same ears.

Pash kept an eye on what Micheal was doing but said nothing. He was not well versed in small talk Sure he had chatted with his comrades but that had been to kill time and had always been about something he knew and understood. Aide from charing leaf children Pash had no idea what might connect him to the other guardian and thus lead to an avenue of discussion.

"Different" Owen repeated with a smile. Really that was all there was to say about it. He didn't think he was any nicer becuase he was different, or that Anao was nicer because her ears pointed and Tansi's did not. Though to him Anao was nicer becuase she was his sister.

Owen lifted an ear to stretch it skywards. He wondered who this Ko person was and how she got her ears to stay up. His were always falling no matter what. He was the only person he knew who's ears hung down and wouldn't stand.

" You have nice hair" Anao pointed out. Hers' was a simple pure cranberry red but Tansi's was much nicer, fading into other colours all dark and bright.

Anao nodded " It's very nice." Could she have traded hair with the other girl Anao would have done so in a heartbeat. He brother even had different hair all sandybrown and golden and black mixed together. Hers was just a plain boring red. " Long hair is nice. Dad has long hair" Anao pointed to Pashes' olive green hair which hung all the way down his back in a low ponytail.

Pash nodded to Micheal's comment. " I have no real experience with children but many I have spoken to say children grow up too fast and lose their wonder for the world.. I don't remember much of my childhood and if I was ever as carefree as them but if so I'm sure it was a happy time with memories I wish i had.." As he spoke Pash made a note to buy a camera of his own. not only might the children like to see themselves younger but he too would want to keep photos to remind himself of them like this.

Ignored, Owen let his focus stray from the girl and back into the rest of the park. Back to the grass which looked very very tasty. Reaching down he plucked a blade and brought it to his lips.

Anao grinned, she was liked and she liked that thought.

Owen chewed his own blade of grass before picked up another green blade and offered it in the palm of his hand to Tansi " Grass is good."

"I'd love a copy" Pash replied uncertain of what else to say.