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(Notes: Mori is currently very pregnant, towards the end of her second trimester, but doesn't know it, she just thinks she's sick. Puck wants her to see a healer, she's refusing and hiding the fact she's sick from everyone... Puck only knows cause he caught her in a moment of morning sickness... I think that's it... She isn't appearing now, I'll wait for Sage to introduce Jon first. And Puck is still Puck, just more aware of his attraction to Anlu. All the updates I have for now, I'm not touching profiles till after the wedding.)

Thoroughly disgruntled and annoyed with his aunt, Puck stalked on to the beach, struggling against the urge to shift into his human form when he caught Anlu's scent. The years had been too kind on the girl and downright cruel to his control. It was better for all involved that he stay in an animal form around her. Picking his way carefully down to where the group was gathered, he flopped down on his belly with a sigh. Captain, you are going to lose a Strider soon if you do not talk sense into a silly aunt of mine, he said conversationally, She and Jon will be around later, and she is not listening to me. My temper is fraying.

Still trying to deny the fact she is sick, even though she cannot keep anything but the most mild food and teas down most days, he informed Anlu, growling under his breath as his annoyance grew, She will not tell Jon, but I think he guesses something is wrong through the mind link, she will not see a healer, she will not stay in bed and rest rather than join this hair-brained mission... Whining now, he looked at Anlu with sad puppy eyes, I would have you talk sense to her, but you are not suppose to know she is ill, she promised me to secrecy. This is where having an aunt who is younger than you was a distinct disadvantage, Puck decided. He had no authority to shove her at a healer for her own good.

Raigon smiled and swept the little Anlu up in his arms and jumped into the air about twenty feet up intot he air and used his psychic powers to hold himself up along with her. "And who is this that is aproaching." Raigon said this in a teasing manor.

Puck scowled and snarled at the stranger teasing his Anlu. Wait, his? Burying the possessive thought as soon as it reared its head before he said anything stupid, he growled and grumbled before lying his head down on his paws, eying the stranger with anger and envy alike. He wanted to be close to her, Nayru quote it, but he couldn't... Could he...? She never made any signals he could read, so he was left in limbo.

Being called "little one" and "kitten" for the past three years, ANlu didn't seem to mind it all too much anymore. Upon landing on her feet, however, she gave Raigon a quick smile and knelt down by Puck, scratching behind his ears like she always did. Turning back to the wolf-man, she introduced them. "Raigon, this is Puck of the Xerian clan and a fellow Strider. Puck, this is Raigon, another Strider, and I'd assume an old friend of Yata's?" She smiled up nat them again, despite her now lack of levitating that she had so easily pouted for. Are you alright Puck?

You'd think a being like Vergil would have a little trouble bending in, but Vergil had learned that if you didn't make loud noises or move in a threatening manner Mortals usually left you alone. It'd slipped into the situation just after the Half Demon Puck had, following him to Anlu's location from the blind Woman's home. Its only close living friend was currently positioned with uncomfortable proximity to a fire, which the puppet was too wary of to approach. It had no desire to be a log. Instead it simply watched with a grim fascination at the potential trainwreck that was unfolding before it. Vergil couldn't mind read with half the accuracy of Puck, most likely, as others had determined, because the it simply didn't have the same mental functionality of most mortals, despite the puppet's "life." But it knew enough to get by, and over the 2 years since Vergil met his friend Anlu and his... (cautious acquaintance?)... Puck, it'd witnessed its fair share of flirting.

Hey, you gotta give it to Vergil. For what should be an inanimate object, it sure payed close attention.

While it knew and cared very little about romantic pursuits, it did however have a veswted interest in keeping his good friend happy. Tentatively, it reached out with its psionic powers and gently "tapped" on the back of Anlu's mind. It conveyed the message that it was present, and was willing to help in any way it could.