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Zael comes downstairs from his room, holding a cloth-wrapped bundle in his arms, and a tired expression on his face. He's holding the bundle close and appears to be... singing to it? Yes - singing to it. A lullaby, perhaps. He sits down on a chair in the corner of the place, and unwraps a bit of the bundle. The baby Boundless peeks out of the blankets, sightless and helpless. His ears twitch at the sound of Zael's voice, and he mouths the blanket's corner. Zael laughs, and tucks the corner back in, before stroking gently down the baby's ears.

The sound of booted footsteps was heard, getting louder as their owner got closer, who entered the kitchen to casually search for a bottle. X luckily found some fresh ones in the fridge, "Looks like Sunny is overprepared again, thank the gods..."

She mumbled softly to herself before taking the nozzle off of the bottle and placing it in the microwave for the shortest amount of time possible, so as not to make scalding milk. Taking the bottle out, she renozzled it and then tested it's temperature on her wrist, and after finding it suitable, she carefully took the chipmunk plushie out of Sanura's mouth and replaced it with the bottle.

And she sucked like there was no tomorrow. X made a mental thank you that she didn't have to breast feed this one, with what Sanura had done to not only the poor plushie's head, but what she was doing to the bottle. Raising an eyebrow, the daywalker heard a soft voice coming from the other side of the house, and she, after securely adjusting the bundle of fur in her arms, followed it until she came across a young man.

He had a Boundless too it seemed, and not wanting to interrupt, X just stood inside the door frame, leaning against it as she watched silently.

Zael looked up at X, and blinked. He'd seen her around before - but not up close. He smiled at her a little, and canted his head down at the small Boundless sabertooth in her arms. Arram squirmed in the blankets, and nosed Zael's hand, looking for food. He let out a small disappointed squeak when none was to be found.

"You have a beautiful little one there... My name is Zael Arrikanez, and this is Arram. I arrived at the island chain about a month ago. I arrived at the mansion about a few days ago... what about you?"

Arram was twitching his ears in response to his father's voice, trying to find where it was coming from.

Sanura was far too interested in her bottle than both X or the new voice, but she did snuggle into the blankets, which she had been wrapped in moreso, purring softly.

"And you as well, I'm X--just X--and this ball of teeth and fur is Sanura." X let her eyes glance over him again, her brief view from earlier hadn't been to her satisifaction, though this one was.

"Hmm... as for your other questions, I arrived, both to the chain and to the mansion, several days ago. Pleasure to meet you."

The daywalker made a light nodding bow in greeting, careful not to stir the baby in her arms, her other hand lazily attempting to dry the 'chew toy' by swinging it in her fingers. No such luck.

"Pleasure, I'm sure. Interesting toy. I haven't been able to find one yet for this one, but he doesn't seem inclined to chew as much as your little one. I really hope I'm doing this parent thing right... Gods only know I screwed THAT one up before."

He sighed, and started bouncing Arram on his knee. The young Boundless made a happy neighing sound, and waved his front legs in the air.

"I've got a rat one as well," X shrugged somewhat before continuing, "...besides, when you raise enough children, you know the best places for gifts and such... And don't worry, it'll get easier."

Sanura, deciding that she was finished with the bottle, pushed it away and it went clattering noisily to the floor, which incidentally the young saber wasn't too happy about this noise. She made a pained cry and pressed her ears as close to her head as possible, reaching up with her 'paws' to indicate she wanted the chipmunk back.

X only chuckled softly, noticing the baby was okay, just bothered, and then plopped the plushie down in the little girl's arms, which she immediately took to chewing on its head again.

"Poor chipmunk..."

"She seems to be quite the little ball of fur and energy, doesn't she?"

He laughed softly, and tickled Arram's belly. The Hyracotherium child squirmed a little, and whickered softly.

"This one is only active in spurts. I'm wondering if he's sick... or if it's something I did..."

"I think mine just spent a little too much time around me... I doubt you did anything wrong, but you can always ask Sunny next time she's around..."

X noticed a fireplace near the corner where Zael was sitting, so she manuevered over to it and sat down in front of it, setting Sanura carefully in front of her to gnaw on the plushie.

"I wonder what they'll be like when they're older..."

Zael set Arram down near Sanura and watched, his arms crossed. The young horse-child started crawling towards the fireplace, and smacked his head right into Sanura's shoulder. He backed up with a suprised whinny, and landed right on his rump. Zael chuckled, and reached down to ruffle his headfur.

Sanura let out a surprised mrow as she was head butted, sniffing lightly towards the scent of whatever that had knocked her. Gripping the plushie tightly with her front arms, she turned her head towards the offender, the plopping noise of him landing causing her ears to swivel slightly in his direction, adding a now curious mew to the air.

X joined in chuckling with Zael and lazily leaned back against the chair's legs, making sure not to get in his legspace.

Arram whickered softly, and nosed forward again, hitting Sanura's front paw/hand with his nose. He whinnied, and flopped over, scooting towards her.

"Isn't that sweet? I think they might just like each other."

Zael smiled, and sighed softly.

The sabercat held onto her plushie tighter, sniffing more as she leaned forward towards the plushie stealer, nudging her nose against his ear curiously. A soft purring mew came from the kittenlike baby.

"Aye, they might just... wonder when they'll open their eyes..."

X heard the sigh and glanced up at the man above her, but decided not to say anything and just watch the two babies.

"It will probably be at least a day. She's lovely you know..."

The Eohippus child whickers, and noses forward, trying to grab the plushie again in his mouth. Zael bends down to pick him up, and make him let go.

"That's enough now - I'll get you a plushie of your own soon, Arram. You leave hers be."

Sanura whimpers when the warm fuzzy thing is scooped away, making a light sad mewing noise as Arram left, but soon after, she forgot and stuffed the plushe back in her mouth.

"I wonder what color eyes she has... and Arram too... And if you want I can pick up some plushies for Arram at the mainland..."

X grinned as she looked up at him, trying to catch a glance of his face and the cute bundle in his arms.

Zael nodded to X, and set Arram back on the floor, where he promptly crawled back over to Sanura, and curled up against her side. She was warm, he was cold. Simple logic.

"If you would, I'd appreciate it... Oh.. Errr... should I move him?"

"Any particular kind that you want, like a specific animal or something?"

X looked over at Arram and Sanura, who had turned over towards the warmth, her one paw moving to rest against Arram's side, leaving the chipmunk rear free from her grasp.

"Nah, I think they're good for now... just as long as they don't crawl towards the fire..."

She patted the floor next to her, motioning for him to sit down next to her with a smile, "Cmon, sit with me... it's a front row seat."

Inle, at that moment, clomped down the stairs, singing loudly and off-key, "I used to be such a sweet sweet thing, till they got a hold of meeee!" Eki was cradled in her arms as she hopped down the stairs, wrapped securely in an old Iron Maiden t-shirt, making soft baby giggles at his mother's horrible vocal abilities.

He smiles again, and hops out of the chair to plop down beside X.

"Something horse-like I'd imagine... and from the looks of it... maybe something that resembles Sanura...."

Arram softly snorts, and curls tight against Sanura's side, refusing to be budged, no matter how hard he's pushed or shoved.

"Mkay, I'll see if I can find something... So what about you, tell me a bit about yourself."

X gave him a quick glance before looking at the two Boundless curled together on the floor, Sanura nuzzling her wet cat-like nose against Arram, the plushie hanging out of her mouth nudging at him as well.

"They are rather cute together..."

Zael nodded, and yawned a bit himself as his son did.

"I'm tired... dunno why... Heh... doesn't look like he's going to move, does it?"

He yawns again, and closes his eyes, snoozing a bit, before he remembers he's been asked a question.

"Gods - sorry... dozed right off... Can you ask me that tommorow? It's a rather sensitive subject."

Inle danced her way into the kitchen. Eki had grasped some of the shirt Inle wore in his tiny, clawed fist, and although she could feel the fabric tearing a little, she didn't seem to mind. "Let's see," she said to no one in particular. "What should I feed you? Don't lizards like, eat small animals? Whole? But you're too little to eat a whole animal soooo...I wonder if there's any hamburger meat lying around. Yeah, that would work!"

Boot-clad feet padded loudly to the refrigerator; as she threw the door open, Eki curled closer to Inle's shoulder, making an unhappy hiss at the change of temperature. She poked around in the contents for a moment, eventually coming up with a small, saran-wrapped chunk of raw meat. Using a foot to push the door shut, she strode somewhat victoriously out of the kitchen, looking for Ruby and/or Q to ask if it was alright to feed Eki what might have been someone's dinner.

As she walked around the mansion, she heard the sound of voices. Curious, she followed their sound, only to find a couple of the other guardians, their babies playing on the floor. "Awww," she said. "Lookitthelittlebabiessocute!"

"Not really... the look pretty stuck together..."

X raised an eyebrow at his other comment after the pause, smiling softly, she moved an arm around his shoulders and pulled him towards her so that he could rest his head against her shoulder if he liked.

"Fires tend to make people sleepy methinks... but aye, I'll ask you another time..."

The daywalker looked up at the incoming voice, chuckling softly. "Aren't they cute? Ohh yours is green, reminds me of Nyoka..."

Zael sighed, and leaned against X's shoulder. He was asleep before too much longer, much like his son. It really was cute.

Inle literally hopped into the vacated chair, settling herself in it cross-legged. Eki's tongue flickered out, tasting new scents, and squirmed in her lap, but she held him fast. Opening the blob of wrapped meat one-handed, she dipped a finger in it, holding it at Eki's mouth, smiling when he started chewing on it.

"Did your guys' just hatch too?"

"I don't think fetuses 'hatch' persay, but I woke up and had a baby on my dresser... So it's a yes, but it looks like I'll be going home with two new men... both sleeping like babies. How are you?"

X leaned her head against Zael's out of instinct, letting her fingertips lazily run through his blond hair in a soothing manner, like she did to Nathan when he was depressed.

Sanura, was now fast asleep, like the other two men, and was clinging to Arram and purring softly.

"We ah mahvelous, dahling, simply mahvelous," she responded, affecting a horrible foreign accent. She fed Eki more of the meat, tearing her eyes from him long enough to glance over at the others. "Sooo...which ones are those?" she asked, tilting her head in the direction of the babies curled up by the fire.

"Hmm... the saber is mine, and the other one is this bigger sleeping baby..." X made a refrence to the man leaning against her, "But I don't know how I'm going to get them back up to the rooms without waking them."

In fact, Sanura was making kitty snorepurrs every so often, nuzzling against the other furry warmth. She just looked up at the other girl for a moment.

Inle shrugged. "Wake them anyway? Or let them sleep here, I mean the worst that can happen is the babies'll crawl into the fire and then their species'll REALLY be extinct." As she fed Eki the last of the meat, she wiped her soggy finger on her pants, but reoffered it to Eki once it was somewhat clean. He cooed happily, content to chew on this offering.

"But they all look so cute! Even blondie here, and I'm not much into blondes. Sleeping men are always cute, look innocent."

X chuckled and watched Inle with her lizardo for a moment, before turning to the two sleeping babies, a soft smile coming across her lips, her fingertips continuing to run through Zael's hair.

"An' I thought about that, tis why I'm watching them... so they don't become sacrifical Buddists."

A thricely-pierced brow quirked at X's statement. "So...spy on him when he's sleeping, or something? Or put the fire out so no one gets roasted, although..." she trailed off there. No need to share her views on cannibalism. Instead, she squirmed on the chair, free hand digging through a pocket until she came up with a disposable camera. She carefully tossed it to X, trying not to hit the man she was sitting with. "Take a picture, it'll last longer."

"Nah, I've got a husband... though he's never bloody around anymore... Feel like a single mum..."

X grinned slightly, looking back at her just as she tossed the camera, her 'free' hand precisely snapping up and catching the camera with ease. She turned and took a picture of the two babies and then stuck the camera in her lap, ******** no she wasn't going to give up a free camera. The girl'd have to fight her for it, doubtful that would work either.

"No fire equals no warmth... not something I want."

Inle glanced briefly at the camera in X's lap before looking at the babies curled up by the fire. Was this chick a klepto or something? Gods, she had better hide her real equipment somewhere safe before she got any ideas. Maybe get a safe or something...and they called her crazy. "Have fun sleeping there, then."

Her attention turned back to Eki as he yawned around her thoroughly soggy finger, murmuring gibberish.

Ruby wandered into the front foyer of the mansion, a large yawn parting her muzzle. She meandered into the kitchen, quickly taking note of the three Guardians and their wards chatting it up in the living room. She rummaged around in the kitchen, noticing that a few of the bottles were missing. Ruby chuckled, very eager to meet the newcomers. Grabbing a banana (how ironic) and a glass of orange juice, she swiftly peeled the fruit and downed it in a few not-so-graceful bites before gulping down the juice.

Finishing up her snack, she padded silently over to the door of the living room, peering in on the occupants, merely observing for the time being.

"Who says I'm going to sleep here?"

X just smirked, she had a few secrets of her own, and wasn't too worried about getting up to bed, just lazy. She was about to say something when she saw Ruby at the door, and she waved with her free hand, mouthing a light hello.

Sanura just chortled some as she nuzzled as close as possible to Arram, she may just take both of them to her room with her, and leave Zael a note or something. Bah, she'd think of something when the time came.

"Who says you're not already asleep, and that this isn't some drug-induced dream? Or maybe you're dead and this is hell, and at some point someone's gonna come along and shove a giant pineapple up your a** just to ******** with you, cuz that's what they do. In hell."

Eki giggled as Inle finished speaking, as though he found the hidden humor in his mother's words. Inle's gaze followed X's, and she turned in her chair only to see Ruby lounging in the doorway. She flashed her a bright smile. "Hi!"

Ruby flicked her tail, offering a silent wave to the two conscious Guardians in the room. "Hey, guys." She seated herself away from the group, but faced them in her seat. "How're the little tykes?" Her eyes rested fondly on each of them in turn, tail flicking as though she itched to scoop all three of the little ones up and cart them away.

"I've already died love... And there's nothing wrong with a**l."

X grinned, a hint of her fangs slightly visible if she were turned to Inle, but she wasn't and instead turned her attention to the older Boundless.

"Oh those two are attached to eachother I think, and now they're sleeping, and sharing a plush."

They were pretty damned cute, and X looked over to Ruby and chuckled at the look she was giving them.

Inle made a face at the thought of a**l involving a giant pineapple, and immediately burst out laughing. Eki's giggles sounded with her own as she looked over at Ruby. "This little tyke's just fine. I hope you don't mind, I fed him some hamburger..." she gestured at the empty wrapper.

Ruby shook her head, grinning, which was rare for her. "Has anyone's eyes opened yet? It usually doesn't take too long." She slid to the floor, leaning back against the chair. "And no worries about the food. Generally they'll eat anything, which is the most interesting thing. Your little saber, for example. She could grow up to be a vegetarian for all we know." Deeply lit gaze turned to Inle, "It's the most interesting thing. You never know what they'll eat unless you offer them different things."

"Well Sanura's currently sleeping, but maybe when she wakes up? And a vegetarian?" X made a disgusted face for a moment before continuing on, "I'd die if I didn't have my taste of flesh..."

She managed a light chuckle before looking at Zael still leaning against her, sighing softly, X figured she better deal with him, her shoulder was going numb.

"I'm going to take him upstairs, I'll be back in a flash watch the kids please?"

And with the last word, X turned around and wrapped her arms around him before the two of them seemed to be enveloped in a thick smoke, and then all of a sudden they dissappeared. After putting him in his bed, she teleported back to where she had been sitting naught moments before.

"Sorry bout that, I get lazy sometimes and my arm was going numb." .

As X teleported away, Inle's eyes widened. She was getting that feeling again...the one where she felt the need to take an object and dissect it just to see how it worked. The problem was, she usually didn't put things back together, and she thought X would hardly appreciate being her latest science experiment.

Fiercely clamping down on her urge, she turned back to Ruby. "Different things...think it's safe to give him candy, or something? What did you eat as a baby?"

As X made her way through the hall and then down the stairs, she continued to murmer quietly to Sanura, looking about to make sure than no one was around to hear her every so often. She made a quick stop off at the kitchen, rifling through the the fridge for something to feed Sanura, Ruby had said that they just don't eat milk all the time, and since Sanura had lots of teeth, maybe a food change would be good.

"I wonder what you'd like to eat... hmm.."

X started pulling out various fruits and veggies, as well as some desserts and a few other random food, including some meat, raw and cooked alike. Setting the 'kitten' on the counter by the food, X looked into the the wide eyed Sanura, who sniffed the air curiously, mrowing softly.

"Feast time beautiful."

Zael made his way down to the kitchen with a sleepy Arram in his arms. The horse-child had a block in his mouth, and another in his front legs. He was shaking one up and down, and chewing on the other. Zael was chuckling a little, and stroking Arram's ears.

"Good evening, X. And Sanura. Oh, what pretty eyes!"

With the noise of a voice behind her, X grinned and turned her head to find its source, noticing Zael and Arram and giving a light wave. Sanura however had found the bowl of strawberries and had shoved her face in them, chomping at random strawberries ineffectively.

By the time the two had walked in, the saber's face was covered in bits of strawberries, the red hue complimenting her green eyes, and then she noticed Arram, and her front paws waved out at him, purring happily.

"Hey... Um... you seemed to have slept well, you conked on my shoulder last night." X grinned and hoped that he didn't catch her slip up, and decided to change the subject a bit. "Yeah, her eyes are amazing, I'm so jealous... both of her's and Arram's..."

Zael set Arram on the counter, and he immediately crawled towards the bowl of strawberries and Sanura, making whickering noises. He hooked his front legs over the bowl, and pulled himself up.
Zael laughed, and shook his head a little. He HAD noticed X's slipup - but had a little suprise in store for her. Being as old as he was had lots of advantages.
"You know Polish too? Interesting. They seem to like each other, yes..."

X blinked and blushed slightly, surprised when he responded in Polish as well, considering it was a strange language around here it seemed.

"Apparently, sometimes people mention my accent... So I guess I grew up learning this language first..."

She grin and turned to the two Boundless, chuckling when Sanura licked Arram's cheek and then rubbing against it, getting strawberry blood on Arram too. Sanura sniffed the horse Boundless before noticing the bowl next to them. Ice cream! The furball shoved her head into this bowl as well, licking happily.

Arram made an unhappy whinny, and pushed his nose into the both with Sanura, before Zael lifted him out, and cleaned him off with a wet towel.

"Nope. Don't think so. That stuff's bad for you."

He whinnied again, and flailed in Zael's arms.

"No."

He set the Boundless down on the opposite counter, and started to clean him off to whinnies of protest.

Noticing he had reverted to English again, she shifted her eyes away and sighed softly before nudging Sanura out of the ice cream bowl.

"It's just vanilla, shouldn't do any harm..."

Sanura eyed the fish X had set out and started crawling to it, but X was one step ahead of her and scooped the baby up in no time, no fish breath for her child. Looking down at the saber's face, X grabbed a clean towel and damped it so she could wipe off the sticky strawberry juice.

"So strawberries are good... Why don't you try and give Arram a baby carrot?"

At the mention of the other baby's name, Sanura sniffed the air and tried to squirm towards Arram, but X held her still and continued wiping.

Arram nosed Zael's hand, looking for food. He was hungry and it was his dinnertime.

"No - I JUST fed you!"

Arram squeaked in protest, and tried to crawl OFF the other counter to the bowl and Sanura. Luckily, Zael caught him, and brought him over to the counter with the other Boundless - AFTER removing the strawberries and ice-cream.

"I hadn't thought of that, X... do you have one?"

"Mmhmm... right by your hand actually..." X chuckled softly at the two before she took the two bowls from Zael and set them on the far counter, putting the fish and whatnot away for now.

Sanura showed no intrest in the orange veggies, instead gazing her speckled eyes at Arram's squeak fit, so in attempts to 'protect' Arram from the yelling man, she crawled over to the Eohippus baby and climbed on top of him, only managing to drape her baby body over him. Though she was stuck, she decided to stay there, he was warm and he smelled friendly.

X however had found some cheesecake in the fridge and had immediately dove for the nearest clean fork, murring happily as she began to eat her new beloved. Her eyes carefully watched the two however, finding them to be oh so cute and her cheesecake oh so good.

Arram squirms, and then decides to live with Sanura draped over him. Snorting softly and then reaching his mouth towards the juicy carrot while still under Sanura. He whinnies when he can't quite reach. Zael knocks the carrot closer, and is rewarded with a happy neigh as Arram gets his mouth around the veggie, and chews.

Inle wanders into the kitchen, Eki in tow, and stops short at all the bodies occupying the room. She offers them a weak smile, and seeing the kitchen's island full of food, she plunks the baby lizard down in the middle of it. Rather than diving after the food, however, he just kind of stares at everyone with his cold, topaz-colored eyes.

Sanura sniffed at the carrot Arram was eating and stuck her tongue out, as if to say 'ew' to the veggie. It had no smell, and it looked funny, so the saber attempted to wriggle off of Arram, but in her attempts she slipped and flopped backwards into a bowl of smaller apples.

Thinking that they were some sort of chew toy since they had a strange scent, Sanura bit into the nearest apple, but when she went to open her jaw to chew, the apple just stuck there to her sabers. This left Sanura cross eyed staring at the green apple, seemingly stupified.

Arram blinked, and crawled over to Sanura, squeaking, trying to pull her free by chomping on the apple himself, and trying to pull her off.

Oh no he was not trying to steal her food, not matter how stuck and annoying it was, it was hers, and Sanura attempted to growl protectively, but it came out like a weird whistling snort because of the lodged apple.

X just watched the two with great amusement as the saber pulled back on the apple, trying to tug-a-war it away from Arram.

The young woman noticed Inle and gave a slight wave and smile before returning her attention to the three on the table.

Eki watched the game being played with the apple for a moment before crawling over to the other baby Boundlesses. He too sank his fangs into the apple, tiny arms raising to sink their claws into its flesh. As a result, his weight bore the fruit back to the surface.

Arram found himself stuck as well, his mouth too small for the apple. He tries to jerk away, finding himself pulled back along with the apple. Zael's trying VERY hard not to laugh.

Finished with her cheesecake, X set the plate down in the dishwasher before looking over at the three, wondering if she picked up the apple would she get three babies hanging from it.

"They're amusing aren't they?" She moved into Polish because lately it seemed to be more prominant, more natural, and now she didn't even notice when she said it, not intentionally trying to keep Inle out of the conversation.

Sanura growled, which once again got mistrewed by the apple, and shook her head from side to side in attempts to reclaim her apple. After a strong jerk, she toppled over backwards into the bowl again, taking the other two with her.

Eki squeaked as he his balance was suddenly thrown off, his tiny fores removing themselves from the apple in order to steady himself, only to sink into the sides of the fruit after a moment. The slitted pupils of his eyes contracted even more as he gave a mighty tug of his own, finally ripping the apple free. He was once more set off-balance, however, and he landed outside of the bowl on his back, looking somewhat bewildered.

Zael scoops Arram from the pile of Boundless, and motions back upstairs.

"About time for us to hit the sack. See you tommorow I guess?"

Sanura gave a pained cry as the apple was roughly ripped from her sabers, which apparently were sensitive, the young tiger moving her paws to her mouth in attempts to make the pain go away. The daywalker was about to answer Zael's statement when she heard the cry and immediately scooped up Sanura, holding the young Bounless against her until she calmed down, responding to Zael then.

"Mmhmm... I guess so, sleep well then."

X was kind of disappointed, both in the fact that everytime she tried to speak Polish with him, he ignored her, and partly because he was leaving her with the looney one. It could be heard in her voice as she shifted her eyes over to Inle for the moment before returning them to the furball in her arms.

"Um... X... Why don't you come up to my room tonight, yes? I think the little ones want to spend some private time together."

Inle smiled inwardly as Eki succeeding in getting the apple; to her, this was just more proof that "Minizilla," as she had come to affectionately call him, kicked all sorts of a**. She sat Eki upright, gently detaching his teeth and claws from the apple to his squeaking protests.

From a pocket of her pants, she pulled a butterfly knife, opening it expertly with a flick of her wrist before slicing the fruit into halves, pushing one half towards X and Sanura. She began to cut the remaining half into bite size pieces, feeding them to Eki, who gurgled in delight.

She nodded in thanks as she took the apple slices from Inle, unimpressed by the knife handling, and offered a slice to Sanura, who sniffed it and immediately snubbed it, glaring at the fruit. X just shrugged and at the slice herself, rubbing Sanura'd back as she listened to Zael, wondering what kind of proposal this was, seemed innocent enough.

"I think I can do that... Any particular time you want me to come? They do seem to like eachother."

X made a mental note to find a person to train Sanura if she so chooses, from her research, sabertooths were pretty damn strong themselves.

"Later, maybe tommorow morning?"

He grins, and waves at X, started upstairs.

"Goodnight to you! And I'll see you again tommorow - as will Arram."

Inle did her best to ignore those around her, feeling much more subdued tonight. She made a face at Eki as she fed him the last chunk of apple, crossing her eyes and sticking her tongue out. Eki giggled in return, sticking his own overly long tongue out. Almost reluctantly, Inle smiled at him, leaning forward to press a kiss to the tip of his snout.

X nodded to Zael, "I'll knock later and if you don't answer I'll see you in the morning. Goodnight then..." Sanura on the other hand, mimicked her mother as she waved, raising a paw and peering her spackled eyes over X's shoulder to sadly watch them go.

"Sorry about the Polish, it's not everyday you find someone that speaks that fluently too..."

She grinned lightly, moving to the fridge in attempts to find another piece of cheesecake, Sanura feeling the cold and peering curiously into it, obviously not miffed by it either.

Inle half-shrugged apathetically, normally vivid eyes looking somewhat dulled. Her attention remained on Eki as she murmured, "Whatever." She idly refolded the knife, sticking it back in her pocket.

Eki had grown bored with the tongue game and moved to explore the rest of the foodstuffs on the table. His long tail swayed gently behind him as he stuck his head into a half empty bowl. His long tongue flickered out as he tasted its contents, apparently approving of it, as he began to devour it messily.

Sanura had slipped into one of her catnaps, nuzzling against X's chest somewhat (because honestly they are comfortable), purring softly. X chuckled and began to gather up the extra strawberries, putting the top on the tupperware and setting it aside to take upstairs with her.

"I see... I think I may head upstairs, Sanura's sleeping and I'm tired. I'll see you again."

She waved a bit and then headed up the stairs and out of view.

X yawned while she toddled downstairs, baby Sanura in arms, fondly chewing on the head of her chipmunk plushie. Sitting down on the counter after preparing a bottle for the sake of simplicity, X fought the plushie away from Sanura and gave her the bottle before she could protest and lash out with her newfound retractable claws.

Fresh scratches along X's wrist showed that this was a recently discovered skill, and that it had surprised her, considering Sanura's hands, though furry, were more akin to a human's than paws.

Ruby was in the kitchen seated at the large kitchen table that was set off to the side. She was poring over a few books which were scattered over the table, lips moving slightly as she read. She didn't look up when X entered the kitchen. Absently she lifted a glass of water to her lips, eyes never raising from the old, somewhat tattered book she was presently giving her full attention to. It wasn't until the commotion of X and Sanura fighting over the plushie was heard that Ruby glanced up, a smile flitting over her features. "Good evening, X, Sanura. How are the two of you?"

X smiled at Ruby, carrying both the saber and the moist plushie over to the table where the other Boundless was seated, careful not to disturb her work.

"We learned that she has retractable claws," She raised her slowly healing arm of scratches as evidence, "...and that's now her solution for everything since she hasn't gotten the hang of it yet..."

Sanura just purred as she suckled noisily on her bottle that X had given her.

Ruby chuckled at the pair, eyeing the scratches that littered X's forearms and hands. She clicked her tongue, rubbing an idle finger against Sanura's cheek before pushing her books aside. "She seems to be a fiesty one, mm?"

She chuckled warmly and nodded. "I can imagine she's going to be a handful when she grows older, X."

Inle shuffled into the kitchen, Eki held against her. She mumbled a halfhearted greeting to those in the room before plunking sitting Eki up on the middle of the table, then turning towards the fridge.

Eki blinked almost confusedly, yellow, slitted eyes focusing on Ruby, who he had never seen before. His tongue flittered out almost innocently as he stared at her; then, without warning, his chubby little arms raised, and he said, "Waaawr!" He then proceeded to giggle almost maniacally.

"She and Zanna will make great friends then... " X murmered softly as Sanura purred a bit louder at the cheek rub, "...And when she's older? I'm scared for anyone who'll piss her off..."

She gave a light grin before ruffling the 'kitten's' ears, eliciting more purring from Sanura.

"So whatcha up to?"

Ruby jerked a little in surprise, eyes widening for an instant before narrowing warily. She stifled a grin as she watched the atrocious baby, turning to watching Inle for a moment before her attention turned back to Eki. She tsked at him, gently tapping him on the nose before sticking her tongue out at him playfully.

X eyed the green Boundless warily as well, almost not surprised by his actions after the days before, and cause of the mother's influence.

"Lo Inle... Eki..." The daywalker was tempted to say 'icky', but doubted that'd be a good idea with Sanura in easy reach of Eki.

Sanura finished her bottle, too infactuated with it to bother, nor notice, Eki's actions, it was only when she tossed her bottle aside did she notice the other Boundless. Recognizing it as the one who hurt her teeth, Sanura made a light hissing noise before moving onto her rump and glaring at the lizard.

All of Eki's eyelids blinked owlishly as he stared at the finger that touched his nose, a clawed hand sluggishly reaching to grab it, only to reach out as it went away. The slits of his eyes narrowed as Ruby's tongue stuck out at him, and he returned the favor, his own long, skinny tongue poking out. He either took no notice of Sanura's disgruntled hiss or didn't care, so focused was he on this new game.

Inle had finally finished digging through the contents of the refrigerator. She had pondered for quite awhile what sort of foodstuffs to subject Eki to next, and fortune smiled upon her as she found a container of hard-boiled eggs. She took one, closing the door and walking to the table, nodding her hello to X before reaching out to ruffle the fur between Sanura's ears.

She sat in the chair nearest Ruby, proceeding to shell the egg. Once she had done so, she waved it in front of Eki's snout. He stared at it a moment before his clawed hands grasped it clumsily, then took a cautious bite out of it.

Inle smiled, looking from her ward to Ruby. "I think he likes you."

Ruby grinned, thorougly entranced by both of the gorgeous babies. She chuckled, tickling Eki's scaled belly before reaching over to scritch along the bottom of Sanura's foot.

"They're all just so lovely." She paused, a wistful look crossing her features. "I'm so looking forward to the day that I can have a child of my own." She blushed a bit, the tips of her ears tinged a bright red. "I'm sorry for carrying on. You're both so lucky. All of you are."

Sanura nuzzled up at the petting hand, but kept her eyes on the lizard, her 'paws' twitching ever so slightly before being distracted yet again by a tickle to her foot. Oh attention, and the saber was loving every minute of it, though still kept a wary eye on 'Icky' as she purred.

"With Q...?" X asked bluntly, not one to skirt around things most of the time, just hoping that Ruby wouldn't be too offended. "I think that they are the luckiest of all, another chance at life..."

Ruby snerked lightly, shrugging her shoulders while crossing her arms over her chest. Shoulders hunched in a slight shrug, "Mmph. He's the only one my age around here, so I might be stuck with him. There's word of a lost Boundless our age wandering around these islands, but I've yet to meet him. It's interesting that so much time went by before Sunny came along and created more Boundless." She chuckled, waving a delicate hand. "My relationship with Q is interesting, to say the least. He's so flirty and flighty."

Ruby chuckled at the kitten, still tickling along her foot while her other hand was occupied with tickle-torturing Eki.

Eki squeaked in laughter at the tickle to his sensitive underbelly, clawed hands fisting in the egg enough to tear off chunks at the side of it. As a result, it dropped to the table, but Eki didn't seem to mind. He simply stuck his egg-encrusted fist in his mouth, sucking on it loudly.

Inle snickered, picking up the egg lest it roll off the table, taking a bite of it before giving it back to Eki, who acted as if nothing had happened. She glanced at Ruby speculatively, before nodding. "Yeah, the kids are pretty cool," she started. "I don't know if this'll make up for a kid of your own, but how do you like the title "Auntie Ruby?" A small smile curled her lips, looking absolutely serious for once.

Ruby giggled, utterly out of character at the prospect of being 'Auntie' Ruby to one of these wonderful babies.

"Oh, that sounds wonderful. I would be honored!" She lifted the plump lizard in her hands, grinning beatifically at the little monster. Squeezing him in a hug, she placed him back down before his mother. Her attention quickly moved to Sanura, fingers raised in a menacing tickle move as she crept closer, clearly enjoying being surrounded by such wonderful creatures. She'd have to go shopping for these two later, no doubt.

X grinned at the response she got from Ruby, chuckling softly before letting Inle speak before she responded.

"Hmm.. a lost Boundless, does rumor tell what species as well? Oh and Q? Seemed pretty horndoggish and comedic to me..."

The young saber purrgiggled softly as X's fingertips ran against the top of her head and as Ruby's fingertips continued to tickly her foot. Attention attention attention! Sanura gave an overly toothy grin to X and then up to Ruby again, who had made an amusing outburst.

Eki dropped his egg as he was lifted, making a happy sort of chitter as he was hugged. He looked up at his guardian, who nearly beamed with pride before bending to give the top of his scaled head a kiss.

Inle stroked her chin pensively as she gazed at Ruby. "You and Q, huh? Well...it'd be interesting to see what your kids would look like," she said with a nod.

The Colobus stifled a yawn as she chuckled at X's comment concerning Q, nodding in wholehearted agreement. "Yes, and he's very obnoxious at times, too. And our children would no doubt be something to see." Chuckling, she withdrew her hands from both of the babies, lifting them over her head to stretch heartily.

"I'd better get going home. It's a lengthy walk and it's getting late." She pressed a small kiss to both of the babies, chuckling at them as she gathered her books and papers into a neat pile, placing them in a cabinet near the fridgerator. Turning back to the two Guardians and their Boundless, Ruby offered a wave and a soft 'goodnight' before turning and padding to the front door of the Estate.

The daywalker waved goodbye to the older Boundless, Sanura just making a soft mew with the kiss, blinking as the attention giver left, attempting to crawl towards Ruby and off of the table.

"Nuh uh... not a good plan..." X scooped Sanura up before giving a light smile to the other two, "Are yall planning on staying here at the mansion?"

As Inle waved a farewell to Ruby's retreating form, the overhead light glinted off of her finger armor. This caught Eki's attention, and he grasped Inle's hands with his own, promptly sticking the shining finger in his mouth. Inle chuckled, wrapping an arm around the lizard baby, looking up at X as she voiced her question. "As much as I'd like to...I don't think so. I've got other kids and pets back in Gambino, unfortunately. Are you two?"

"Same situation, I can only ask Nathan to babysit for so long... Gods know what has happened to the house by now... I may leave tomorrow, I've already stayed longer than planned."

X explained as well as thought outloud to herself as she set Sanura in her own lap, the saber's tail flicking happily as her mother rubbed Sanura's ear's softly, grinning a toothy smile once she realized that the chipmunk plushie was now in front of her for the taking. Time to gnaw some more, which she promptly did.

Inle nodded, gaze lowering to avidly study the grain of the table, idly wiggling her finger as Eki chewed upon it. "I dunno how long we'll stay...it just seems kinda unfair to the kids, ya know? Like they just got born and settled in, and suddenly their parents are taking them away from all that...I came to this island every weekend before I got Eki, though, and I'll keep coming. Just...I'll take him with me, is all. So he can visit."

"Don't you wish they had frequent boating miles...?" X's comment was a bit dry in sarcasm, but her next words were quite serious, "Yeah, but I figure Sanura should meet her family as well as other Boundless, so it's going to be a compromise on both parts methinks... Besides, I've got some shopping to do in Durem..."

Sanura gnawed enthusiasticly on the chipmunk's head, which was starting to lose the distinct features that denoted it as such, her hands gripping it tightly with both her strength and claws. Poor plushie.

She waved her free hand in a dismissive gesture. "It's not the boat thing I'm worried about. I've got a friend who lives in Gambino's port, he takes me here and back for free. But...yeah, I guess they should meet their other family. Not quite sure how the animals'll take it, though," she chuckled. Was she actually sounding serious? She must be tireder than she looked.

Sanura somehow nodded off to sleep, still chewing on the plushie, though lighter, and X took that cue as time for bed, if they were going to leave tomorrow.

"I may end up bringing some of her sisters over here, maybe even a brother... I'm sure they'll be happy for the trip, and speaking of trips, I must take my leave so I can pack and whatnot... Lot's of s**t to do."

X stood up and waved to the two, giving Eki a light rub on the head before she suddenly disappeared in a black swirl of smoke.