Talmei had gone to the kitchen door to tell his daughter and her... boyfriend, that breakfast was almost ready, but turned around quickly as he saw them kissing on the couch.
He slumped and moved slowly back to his perch on a kitchen chair, watching his mate cook with a scowl.
"Don't sulk." Maiika said as she pushed the last of the sheron rolls around in the frying pan.
"I'm na't sulking." said her mate in his thick accent from southern Serenia.
"When your accent appears you are either angry or sulking." Maiika said smiling to herself,
"You aren't angry, at least not a lot, but you are sulking. I am guessing it is because your daughter is out there with the man she loves."Her mate only grunted.
Maiika laughed and gave the sheron rolls one last poke before serving them up onto a plate.
"She still loves you." Maiika said placing the pan in the sink. She turned to her mate and smiled,
"She is just flying by herself now... Flying with the person she wishes to be with for the rest of her life.""I ken that." said Talmei said sighing,
"I just don't want her ta na't need me."Maiika hugged her mate as she sat next to him and nuzzled him,
"She will always need you, just not as much." she kissed his cheek and said,
"Let her need Oblivion more now.""Ah Maiika girl." Talmei said nuzzling her back,
"Ye ken my heart better than I do myself."Being moved onto Oblivion's lap made Avani very much aware of Oblivion, and his kisses almost made her forget most of everything in the world. He smelled of wind and sun, if those two had smells, and of the cinnamon he had used just recently to cook breakfast. Ah, she would remember this day every time she smelled the precious spice.
As she listened to him speak, she remembered her parents were in the kitchen. With the feathers of his tail brushing her back she smiled, holding back giggles, she pulled back to look into his ruby eyes. Yes, they were the ones she had seen in her dreams.
"Oblivion." she said, trying to sound at least one bit serious. She moved so she rested her forehead on his, her eyes as close to his as possible, she spoke what she wished to say about her father.
"Speaking of my parents, please be kind to my father." she smiled a bit and then said,
"He's going to have to adjust to...us. It's not that you are a Khehorian, but that you are the person who I have chosen to be with." She closed her eyes and then nuzzled his cheek,
"He still sees me as a little girl, as his little girl, and wishes to see me happy and protected. It will take some time for him to get used to the idea that I have chosen you to protect me now." She pulled away and smiled and said,
"My mother loves you. She will not be a problem, but my father, well, as you put it, just what would you do if Honoka brought someone home to meet us?"Avani brushed his cheek with her hand and said,
"Just don't get mad at him, You are bigger and could hurt him." She smiled,
"I care for you both very much, and would like you both un-hurt."She would have to talk to her father about the same thing too. Perhaps she would have her mother there as well to help her talk to him.
She loved both men very much and didn't want them at odds.
