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 Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 9:17 pm
Rhian flicked her antennae once, twice, before looking up at her elder sibling with a rather dejectd expression. "But what if I never do? What if I'm messed up?..... Defective?" normal Rhian was fairly happy and bubbly, but there were times, like now, when she thought she was flawed somehow. Ziazan, after all, was so strong and so good at what it did. . . and she knew she bothered her sibling despite her attempts not to.
Ellandra blinked up at Faolan, a slight shine of tears to her eyes. "I'd never leave you Faolan. . . I feel . . .. . rather silly though, for - for worrying so much abou such . . . . such silly things. . ." She trailed off for a moment, before continuing, "I'm not used to - to sharing, either, but for me it's so much better than everthing about my life before that it doesn't even cross my mind that this ought to take adjustment. Strange, I know - and. . . I love you too, Faolan - moods or no moods."
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Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 9:44 pm
Zia chuckled. "You're not defective, just young. Experience will come in time. Just have to look for opportunities."
Faolan nodded. "We'll get used to this all soon. Hell, girl, one day you might even be able to look at me when I'm naked without blushing, eh?" He laughed softly, hugging her against him, then sighed. "And worryin' about me or our bairns--even the Essentic ones--ain't any kind of silly. That's your role as a parent and a wife, my love. Just like I worry about you all, too. You're my family and the only one I got outside of Da. My mother's dead and I don't know my true father, nor do I want to. You and our weans are the only ones I need. Okay, maybe Tryst, too. He'd be like that really strange uncle we never really talk about for the kids."
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Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 10:02 pm
Rhian flicked her antennae - whether it was out of habit or whether she was trying to gauge Ziazan's feelings on the matter was anyone's guess, and nodded a little. "But. . . . how do you look for opportunities, sibling-Zi?"
Ellandra, rather predictably, blushed at Fao's laughing comment."I don't think I'll ever stop blushing at that, actually. . . . and . . . Faolan, is - is it wrong to be glad that my father is dead, now?" She asked tentatively, shame, guilt, and anger all warring across her features. "Because I don't. . . I don't think I could ever face him, knowing what I know now. . ."
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Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 10:37 pm
Zia shrugged a skinny shoulder. "You'll have to figure that out for yourself, sister. It's part of growing into your purpose."
Faolan settled back against the bed, letting Ellandra snuggle against his chest. "Whatever the man did or was, he was also still your father, Elle, and there's some part of him that loved you and wanted to keep you safe, I bet. He was baseline, right? No mixed blood, yeah? He couldn't have been so bad. Tryst told me about my true father and apparently I'm the heir to some creepy criminal family that isn't above sacrificing their own children in ritualistic murders. I think I'd rather let Keagan abuse me everyday of my life and call him my dad than to ever let my real father press me into whatever ******** life he leads." He looked down at Ellandra. "None of our birth parents will have a thing to do with our children, lass. The twins will only have us and Da and the Essentics and Trystan. That's family enough for them, I think."
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Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 9:50 am
Rhian nodded again and flicked her antennae around. "Sibling-Zi? I'm sorry I bother you so much." It was a simple statement, nothing meant by it other than precisely what she'd said. "If I can't help right now, can you tell me how I can bother you less?"
Ellandra closed her eyes and snuggled close to her husband, listening to him for a long moment without saying a word. It was a long time before she responded, and when she did, it was slowly. "Faolan. . . you know, this could be conidered a "strange" family. . . but I think I like it better than a so-called "normal" family ever would have been. I'd like to think the twins will think so too....."
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Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 4:28 pm
Zia sighed, closing its eyes, brow furrowing slightly. It had promised Faolan to be a better sibling, to not fight. Now would not be a good time to argue, since their parents desperately needed stability right now. Opening its eyes, it fixed its rainbow gaze on Rhian. "Little sister, you're not a bother. You sometimes annoy me, but only because I'm not used to young Essentics. I think maybe you should try to find other things to do when you can't perform your purpose. When I was little, I amused myself with reading or organizing some of Da's fortune telling devices when we weren't doing our job. Back then, it was just us and Da spent more time with me. Now he has a wife and children on the way, he wants to be with them. He still needs me, but his time is divided. It's like that for Mama, too. She always needs you, but she might not always need you to be there." It held out a hand for Rhian to perch on. "We could find a game to amuse ourselves with till they're ready to come out."
"The twins ain't ever likely to know a family won't be like ours, not at first. I don't see our family as strange at all, just . . . unique," Faolan purred, giving Elle a quick playful n** on her shoulder. He sighed, resting his head there. "We've got two choices, since it sounds like our weans are behaving. We can make use of this time to have some much-needed intimacy, or we can go show the kids we're alright and try and sneak some time alone later."
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Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 7:40 pm
Rhian flicked her antennae around a bit more and tilted her head, before moving around and perching on Ziazan's outstretched hand. "Game? What kind of game, sibling-Zi? I'd very much like to play with you!"
Ellandra tilted her head and listened to the goings on in the other room for a moment, before kissing Faolan for a long moment. When she broked for air, she smiled and said, "Let them bond for a while, I say."
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Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 7:51 pm
Zia thought a moment. "What sort of games do you know? Did Mama or Da teach you anything?"
Moving around, Faolan kicked a foot out and shut the door, then pulled Elle close, holding her as he lay back on the floor. "Aye, they can bond. You and I have a little bondin' of our own to do. Come here, wife." He pulled her into a kiss.
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Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 8:04 pm
Rhian flicked her antennae, then shook her head. "I don't know any games. . . I can count shinies though! And Ellandra's teaching me to read. . . but I like listening to her read more so I don't know as much as I should." She didn't mention that the only "game" she sort of knew wasn't fun at all - dodge the Rags. The little cat seemed quite set on eating her, and consquently Ellandra had been forced to all but let Rosco have the kitty, for the butterfly's sake.
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Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 8:10 pm
Zia glanced back briefly as the door shut and smiled, then focused back on Rhian. "Looks like we're on our own for a bit." It stood up, letting Rhian perch on the back of the chair it had been sitting in, then went to the dresser in the corner and began looking through it. Pulling out a soft leather pouch, Zia looked back at its sister, holding it up. "You like the coins, yeah? I've got some to show you then."
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Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 8:14 pm
Rhianeyes lit up as she fluttered to perch on the back of the chair and watched her sibling. "Shinies? A game with shinies?" She asked, her antennae flicking briefly in the direction of the closed door. Nope, Ellandra definitely wasn't in immediate need of her right now. There was more than enough time to play a game or three!
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Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 8:17 pm
Zia walked back and emptied the pouch on the table, a pile of coins with strange markings pooling under it. "It's like a game. How much do you know about what Da and I do for a living?"
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Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 8:31 pm
Rhian thought for a long moment before answering. "I know it's what makes Ellandra-Husband-Faolan bring home shinies, and that the cards from your wings are tied to it, somehow, and your purpose is too, but that's all." She'd never asked Ellandra about what the other members of their family did when they went out; she'd actually rather hoped her sibling would tell her, but really, it wasn't her place anyway. She didn't need to know it, even though it was interesting.
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Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 8:45 pm
"We do fortune telling. It's a way to tell people answers to questions that they can't sort out for themselves. Sometimes they don't even know what questions they have and we help them find that out, too," Zia said, sitting down and moving the coins on the table. It picked out up and rolled it across its small knuckles, then caused it to disappear with a simple sleight of hand trick. Looking at Rhian, it smiled a little. "I could teach you the craft, if you'd like."
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Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 8:48 pm
Rhian's antennae flicked around and she fluttered her wings excitedly. "You made the shinies vanish!" She exclaimed, that small trick absorbing more of her attention at least for that moment, than the rest of his statement. Then she tilted her head a bit and flicked her antennae again. "I don't have much magic, though; can I even learn it?" Because she remembered the . . . . card thing that Ellandra and Ellandra-husband-Faolan had done, and how it was something far beyond her ability to reach or comprehend. Surely that meant that this took lots of magic, like what sibling-Zi had?
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