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"Did he mention me?" She still didn't know for sure if Khaiver had seen her and her son when she'd gone outside to get a closer look and found him shaken and stirred up. Damn her eyes, they gave her and Zykariel's relationship away immediately. She knew they were evil even if Sevilin didn't agree. "He's the Queen's personal lapdog. He holds the place of honor of all males in his society. Maybe it's gone to his head." She had a sinking feeling things weren't going to be nearly that easy though. "That's fine with me. Come on." Turning back she headed to their original spot, having gleaned the information she'd wanted from him.

They spoke about trust an awful lot and he kinda connected that it was necessary for people to trust each other to really love each other. Which meant his parents didn't and that was rather sad now wasn't it? "Too late now, they're already married." Mommy was willingly playing the game and so was Daddy therefore it was all good.

He blinked for a moment as Yinn decided to be acrobatic and then frowned, staring at Malikhai's arm. "It looks broken!" His eyes widened. "Yinn! You broke Malikhai's arm! Mr. Malik!"

Leaf shrugged, eeny meeny miny moo'ed it, and chose the furthest to the left. As they swam down it, trying in their minds to figure out if they were actually going down it or up it or...side it. ahead of them, long strands of pearly thread clung to one side of the wall, and floated outwards. They shawn with a strang luminesance that seemed to be puposely aluring.

The stopped, and stared at the thread a moment, wonering what to do about it. A fish swam by them casually, allured by the lights. It touched the thread, and suddenly struggled as if in pain, warpping itself in the threads as it went.

As it settled, a large...larvea type thing detached it's comoflaged self from the wall and started snacking on the fish.

The three turned and found their way back to the intersection.

By the gods what had those boys done now? She picked up speed and swept the child off his feet, lifting him into her arms and carrying him over to the bench that held buckets and such when needed. Setting him down, she smoothed his hair and nodded. "Let me see." The tears on his tunic and the small traces of liquid around the cuts clued her in really quick. She'd read up on draithix after all. "Ah, Yinn got you didn't he? That's alright, we'll get it taken care of and then you'll be just fine. Does it hurt?" She gave him a cursory check over just to make sure nothing else was hurt and then lifted him up again, cuddling him. She needed to take him inside to doctor both the slight scrapes and give him the potion that would counteract the numbing agent in the draithix's claws. She carried him into the house and up the stairs, grabbing what she needed before heading into the bathroom. There she pulled off his tunic and lightly sponged at the scrapes on his back, handing him a vial. "Drink it all Malikhai or your arm won't work again. Does it hurt really bad?"

Zykariel was worried and he went running out to meet his mother and father saying the same thing, then just stuck close by Daddy's side. Tugging on his father's arm, he whispered, "Malikhai's got to have health doesn't he?" Then a grin, "But then he gets a cookie!" Thus tugging at his father's hand. "Come on Daddy. We gotta go make sure he's okay." And the child took off into the house, popping up next to the two in the bathroom. "He's gonna be okay, right?"

Sevilin shook his head...kids, they just got into everything, but he followed back inside, and after Zahara, mostly to keep eye on his own child. He picked the boy up in the bathroom, pulling him away and holding him so he would be out of the way. "He'll be fine...just a little Draithix venom...and I'm sure there's not enough toxin in there to be deadly...maybe a fever..or maybe nothing, seeing as it's still a pup." A look over to two other draithix pups who had been attracted by that particular scent. A dozen of those things around the house was too many...and just wait till they started breeding...

And look at that he didn't even have to walk anywhere at all, he was duely picked up and carried inside. No the scartches on his shoulder were barely anything at all, and were no cause of tears from the boy, after all, "No, it doesn't hurt...I can't feel any of it." Draithix poison...paralytic anestetic with a hint of true poison in it...well at least only a hint when it came to Yinn, he was still a pup. An unhappy look at the vial he was handed, but he merely pinched his nose and then downed it, making a face at the taste. "Icky.."

Yinn twisted his head as Malik picked him up from the hay he was hiding in, at a particularly painful looking angle. He got two clicks and what sounded like a chitter and a yip mixed together. And then he squired a moment, then duely took to licking his now wet paws as he was carried inside, though he took to trailing after Malik when he was put down...he smelled like Malikhai.

Khaiver had his attention arbitratily turned to the goings on in the house...awful lot of people being crammed into this place, and the surrounding kingdom like state was practically empty, or so he gathered from his exploring previous to coming to the fortress itself. But it turned over to Malik. "You've no patience have you? Give the woman till at least tomorrow...she's not as spry as usual. Eager to have me out of your home, Malik?" Though his eyes did look down at the creature who came to sniff at his boots, giving a kick at it, only to make the draithix yelp and scamper back to hide behind Malik's books. "Ah, I see you have Draithix here..."

Zahara gave him a smile, "Yup, it is. But it does it's job and that's what I'm going for here." His cuts didn't even need to be bandaged though she put one on him just in case. Children were forever getting hurt over their previous hurts. She picked the boy up once again and retrieved a new tunic for him, slipping it over his head and brushing him off. "There you are. Good as new." Feeling his forehead, she frowned. "Alright Malikhai, you can't go play just yet because you have a slight fever but that will go away in no time. Let's go get some cookies and milk to wash out that icky taste." Lifting him back up into her arms before a grin to her son. "Coming Kariel?"

Zykariel's hand came to rest on his father's braid, holding tightly as he watched his mother fix his friend's arm. That was kinda scary, wasn't it? "Because little bites don't hurt as much as bigger bites."

He gave his mother a grin and nodded. Like he would ever turn down cookies. Silly mommy. "Come on Daddy, let's go get cookies and milk. And you can have some too because you haven't eaten like you were supposed to yet. At least I don't remember seeing you."

""I'm not pushing and shoving yet. when I push and shove, you'll know it. because it will probably involve you bleeding, or something being sent back to show my impatience. I find it a bit...unusual, for a powerful figure such as a queen, with a runemage sister, and obvious easy access to both Zephyrs and Nightmares for transport, not to mention a legion I'm sure of guards, soldiers, personal servants...to take longer than say..four hours to deliver one crate of items that should be very easily accessable, three vials of blood that her sister can extract virtually without any pain or real injury. that shouldn't take but maybe fourty-five minutes to get together and fully prepare for shipping. the spider I'd wager at most, three hours. I'm well aware the Inthra house has an affinity for the creatures. Lateef probably gave her a response, or is on his way, within fifteen to thirty minutes of receiving her request."

petting the drathix some more.

"So unless large spiders are unbelievably rare in your underdark, Or Mahlari is just being lazy or obstinant due to our previous encounter, things should either be here or should be well on thier way. in either case, you should have been informed in order to inform me so that the necromancer I am sending with you is fully ready and prepared for his trip there nad what is expected of him, along with any items he may need or may be useful for any assigned task dealing with the finding and interrogation of these souls you wish to have questioned."

a slight smirk.

"did I miss something in there?"

"Ever the one threatening, even to those that come to you defenseless to a point and asking favors. No wonder your PR skills are forever down in the dirt." A light chuckle, no he wasn't afraid to offend Malik or anything. Khaiver had quite the backbone in him when it came down to things. "Remember D'vinn...we're not in your world, that one runs by it's own, which you may not even like but you do have to tolerate in the name of a contract."

But a little surprised look. "Now you're going to throw the Intharas into it? So what if they do, so do a dozen and a half other Houses...reliable little depths creatures after all. Besides, do you think Mahlari kind enough to inform those five where thier dear brother is? That is information that is oh so useful to keep to one's self...I'm sure you know all about that. Your assumptions do amuse me ever so much."

But he watched Malik for a moment, before pulling out a scroll and threw it to him. "But since you've been such a good sport thus far...word of confirmation for both your items being crated and sent, and for Rainsongs agreement to come down here and pay a visit. Will that suffice you until tomorrow?"

And the children had gone quiet, and he had a suspicion that the cookie and milk weren't the entire cause of such things like that. A bat to his son's puffy hair as the boy crawled into his lap and he took a moment to pull Nym from his tunic and set him on the table so the boy could lean back without crushing him, and meanwhile he let his free hand pet the furry tired thing.

He didn't look so satisfied with the answer, seemed with mommy's leaving that meant that daddy was back in charge of the house. When daddy was in charge of the house, he had important things to do that took a lot of time and he couldn't always be around. Information that he knew by heart from mommy having told him....but with all that happening, mommy had also been there to fill in the gaps that daddy left. And no, Zahara and Sevilin weren't the same. But her let her sling his arm and then he went about dipping a cookie in the milk that was brought as well. Nothing better than a soggy cookie when you were feeling down.

Zahara knew better as well. Those boys were both unhappy and there was not a damn thing she could do to make it better. That just burned her up. She sat down at the table and pulled out her dagger, fiddling with it to keep herself busy. What she dearly wanted to do was drive that dagger through Malik's black heart and she didn't particularly care if he knew that's how she was feeling either. Nothing should be more important than his son and Malikhai was feeling it too. Her gaze skittered over to Sevilin who was holding their son who didn't look any happier and she sighed and shook her head. "You let me know if your arm starts to hurt anything, okay Malikhai?"

Zykariel set his milk down on the table so it didn't spill on his father's pants since he knew how much he hated that and he took to quietly eating his cookie before breaking off a piece and pushing it up to Sevilin's lips. That would suffice Mommy to make sure Daddy stayed fed. After though he did lean back against the strong chest and let out one of those full body sighs.