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Hazeline watched as Aphismet left the kitchen to return a moment later with a photo album which he placed onto the kitchen counter. Leaning over the counter flipped the album open, Hazeline chuckled at the photos depicting a frei-Rivener. “He certainly looks different but not much younger in terms of physical appearances,” commented Hazeline as she viewed the photos showing the planetarium, the beach and a hotel with the word ‘Gambino’ on its sign. “He looks rather matured as a Frei,”

It was then that the door leading into the house was kicked open rather roughly. Startled, Hazeline looked up in time to see a rather surly youth storm into the kitchen with his Sigel floating cheekily in through the walls. Was this the other Sigel Aphi had mentioned? If so, the young boy would be Isi. Hazeline momentarily winced at the youth’s choice of words but that was immediately put aside as the green-hued raevan approached her, speaking in tongues of a time long gone. Inwardly, Hazeline was tempted to take a couple of steps back from the red-eyed raevan but thought better of it. Xiu got insulted if someone backed away from him and who knew how the other raevans would take it? Standing her ground, Hazaeline gave Eiry a polite nod. “Pleased to meet you, I’m Hazeline and a Raevan owner. My charge, he’s…somewhere…,” said Hazeline with some surprise. Hadn’t Xiu and Rivener been floating just beyond the kitchen a moment ago? “With Rivener probably,” said Hazeline after some thought. “He’d be delighted to see you I don’t doubt,”

Now that introductions to the excited Raevan were over, Hazeline had time to observe the youth. He seemed sheepish now that there was a visitor there and that awkwardness was…oddly charming in an adorable sort of way. Holding out her hand, Hazeline smiled “Good to see you too, Isi,:

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Xiu wasn’t too sure he’d enjoy meeting ghosts given past experiences with them but currently, the white raevan couldn’t feel anything out of the ordinary. Perhaps these ghosts were peaceful ghosts and the house, despite its age, was well lived in. It did not have that musty, dusty, stale feeling the antique shop had. Folding his wings neatly, Xiu followed Rivener up the stairs and into the painting room. It had a spacious feel to it and was definitely a well lighted room. Rivener had immediately floated over to a cabinet and after some rummaging, emerged with some of the paintings he had done. Taking the paintings, Xiu was impressed. So the Scorpion had an artistic side as well!

The backyard and park scene was pretty and…had a nostalgic feel to them. Xiu pointed to the painting of the backyard and raised his eyebrows questioningly. Where had Rivener got this scene from?

Standing with his cheeks burning hot underneath the familiar rustle of Aphismet's hand, Isi glanced balefully out from underneath his messy bangs of grey and brown. He knew very well that language was something he had to work on, but he always seemed to forget the rule as soon as he left Aphismet's presence. Admittedly, he hadn't gotten very far with the endeavor.

"Sorry, Aphismet," Isi said in polite reply, his mouth turning into a tight frown as the hair-rustling momentarily intensified, "I learned it way before I ever met you and it's kind of stuck. Big language for little guys like me with crutches is a big help when there's not a big tough cook like you tottering around. And Alex only swears when she's real angry, so don't think it was her."

Once he was able to shake his head free from Aphismet's affectionate grip, Isi forced his face into an apologetic grin, giving their guest his best 'I'm just an innocent little brother' face. "Sorry you had to hear that, Miss Hazeline, I have a mouth that would make even a sailor blush," then, for a split second, Isi lost his cool and a familiar scowl returned to his face, "Eiry, give the lady some breathing room, would you! She's not in 10 case font, jeez. I thought you would've learned some manners by the time you were a Sigel!"

Eiry, with a grin that could reflect the light of the moon, drifted away from his close inspection of Hazeline. She had twitched when they first entered, but now that they were in her presence she had hardly moved a muscle. It was almost as if her stillness and complacency was beginning him to inch steadily more and more and more and more closer until he was barely a hair's breadth away from her. All the meanwhile, he kept on his face, an eerie unchanging all teeth smile, meeting her charge of placidity.

It was before he could mutter a scary sound that Aphismet reinforced the fact that there was another raevan in the house. Leaning back from Hazeline about the same moment that Isi began to berate him, Eiry's face swiftly flipped from creepy to absolute joy, "Well, well!" he piped, turning back to Hazeline and taking her grip with his cold cold hands, "Well met, well met! Such questions I could pester you with, but such matters will be spoken by my young guardian instead! I dare not stay longer in a presence as fair as yours, but drift instead up through the floors!"

And with a bout of barely contained giggles, Eiry bolted up into the ceiling, the last thing of him being the snap of his minty ribbon.

...Until he burst in front of the west-facing window Rivener and Xiu were both intently looking out of. With a loud howl of glee, terrible to hear, Eiry rolled his shoulders and flared his flaming wings with eager coughs of flame, "What, what, brother mine! Hoarding the guest to yourself now are we?"