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Meh...maybe he wasn't a good one to sniff after all. There was someone else here anyway. Gyre shrugged and backed off, more because she was bored than anything else. Time to sniff someone new! She cralwed over in DS's general direction, trying to keep out of the way so she could set her Legend down.

Out of the corner of her eye, she watched Demare, curious.

Patience waved, smiling, and made her way to the couch. "I am here as well. Lu is at home, sleeping. I'm out and about doing some shopping."

Gyre reached up with her chubby hands. This one had an eye like her! She had to see this. Bring him down, please! Her mouth made shapes like words, but nothing like speech really come forth from them.

"Doww! Doww peez!" she said, blinking.

Oh ho! There he was! Must now investigate! Hope he's not weird and antisocial like that other one...

Gyre crawled up slowly this time, tilting her head. One eye closed? She did the same, wondering if it was some new game she had never been taught. He was a pretty color, too, but he had no wings that she could see. The other boy did, but this one did not...

Gyre blinked back, confused. Then, regaining confidence, (and spying Demare crawling near) she opened both eyes and fluffed her wings, sending tiny balls of poof into the air. Feather poof. Good stuff. Gyre giggled and clapped, wondering if the lazy one's fluff could do the same.

It didn't look like wings, though, which was confusing...

(( *has to go soon...late...school tomorrow...curses...curses...*

Oh! I have an idea for Gyre plotty-goodness...hee hee hee... ))

Patience, watching the clock, stood up. She scooped up Gyre into her arms, just as she was power-fluffing her wings for the strange pale boy. Gyre blinked, and, deciding to be polite, waved to both the boys. It was fun, short a visit as it was. But it was okay.

"Bai bai..." she cooed. "Moonie...n...Blinky!"

"Goodbye everyone!" Patience waved with her free hand and walked out the door. Time to do more shopping!

EDIT - (( Moony = Karan, Blinky = Demare. xd ))

((BRIEF visit. Because people just won't let me leave.))

This time it was DS who had forgotten something at the HQ. Sometimes, she thought to herself as she slipped in with Karan in her arms, she should have herself on a leash.

Another face, this one black and furry, with a golden lightning bolt etched over one eye, peeked through the door after the woman. "Can I come in too?"

A tall, slender young man stepped into the HQ with a baby Legend in his arms. He was dressed elegantly, in a poet's shirt and black slacks; his long black curls were tied back neatly. He seemed a pleasant enough young man, though handsome enough to be dangerous...but he carried baby Keita in his arms?!

He walked to a sofa and set the bag on his shoulder aside, before glancing around the room with observant black eyes. Keita peered at all present...seemingly perfectly happy.

Aurora's head perked up when she heard the voice. It was her good ole worrying buddy Sirus. "Sirry!" She squealed and raced to him, tackiling and smushing him against the carpet.

Guinevere, as Airez was busy reaching for a book saw another lengend out of the corner of her eye. She took her fist out of her mouth and clapped both of her hands, one dry and one soggy, together and reached for the little friend.

Shifting through the different books, Airez sorted which ones were interesting and which were just dull looking, Through the presence of another quickly brought on a sudden wave of cautiousness about him, causing his head to turn slightly to the side, as if looking back yet halting. For a moment, he stayed silent, analyzing somethign in his mind before looking towards the shelves once more.

"Hello, DS. It's good to see you again." Of course, he couldn't REALLY see her. His back was turned to the woman after all. Instead, he turned his body slightl to allow Guin the sight of the womana nd the babe she held. "This would be another little one, Guinevere."

Guinevere then saw her ear friend. She thought scritch scritch to herself and began boucning all about in Airez' arms, not wanting a story anymore but to play and snuggle her friend and her soon to be friend.

"Want to go over..." asked Airez, noticing the bouncy nature of the baby he held. A smile drew about his face before walking across the room towards the tall, dark, and handsome man that held Keita in hsi arms. To this man, Airez put upon his usual menacingly neutral face, though he let it slide once he looked upon Keita. "I assume you are taking care of Keita for Britain, or I would at least hope so."

Sitting down, he placed Guin upon the floor to allow her to do as she wished, then looked abck upon DS and Karan, then over towards the strange Talas that were about. "Hmmm..."

Sirius was nearly bowled over by his pink friend. "Rory... yes, long time no see." He sighed, and plopped himself down a ways from the door. "I don't suppose you know then?" A depressed sigh escaped him as he laid his head on the floor.

"It's nice to see you too, Airez-san, and... Guin? Does that mean Pink's here?" It would be nice to ask a friend more about what was happening. And she hadn't seen Pink in weeks. The thought made her hopeful.

Karan was awake this time, both eyes taking in everything around him. This time, there wasn't a fire kid to make things scare, so he was slightly more relaxed.

"Actually, I'm not certain she knows where we are at the moment," the man replied to Airez, flicking his hair back over his shoulder with easy warmth in his eyes. "She said babysit, I said like hell...and then she left and I didn't get much choice."

Keita blinked from his carrier's arms, staring at Airez with wide eyes...and then he BOUNCED and mrrr'd and waved his little hands. Guin was here too! That meant EAR SCRITCHES!!!

Guinevere crawled herself an equal distance between the two boy legends. She wanted to pl ay with both of them. She wanted them down where she was. She crawled over to her large bag and dragged it to where she was, plopping back down on the ground. She immediately began taking a few snacks and plushies out from it with which she would lure them in.

Aurora frowned at Sirus and got off of him, lying next to him. "No...what happened buddy?"

"I don't believe Pink is here, sorry." replied Airez to DS, turning his attention awya from the woman to talk with this dark individual. "Well I suppose that's fine enough, even if it is against your will. Though it is your will if you did so out of concern since you didn't want to simply leave the child all alone. Or else concern for your own hide as to not incur the wrath of a pregnant woman."

Smiling to this little fact, Airez peered down at Keita and reached over, placing his hand upon the fawn's head, then scratching lightly behind his ears. "Excuse my words. I seem strange in teh beginning, as I've been told."

"No stranger than half of what's waiting for me back home," he snorted, and shook his head. "My name is Aoshi Newark- Britain's oldest son, home for the holidays from university. The little monster recognizes you- who might you be?"

EEAAARRR SCRITCHEEEEEEEESSSsssssssssssssssssssssss!!!! Keita promptly dissolved into incoherency, leaning into Airez's touch with a blissful expression on his little face.


"Oh." DS didn't bother trying to hide her disappointment. Instead, she put Karan down near the other babies and headed towards the kitchen. "Where'd I put that crepe pan?"

"I'm..." Sirius struggled with his words. "I'm a... a... a GRANDPA!"

Karan looked around again. There was a boy and a girl, like before, but they were different. These ones didn't have fluffy wings, or eyes like his. But they looked interesting. Still, he made no move towards either of them, and simply watched from his spot on the floor.

"Airez Ryong, one of Keita's fost uncles, as well as a foster uncle to one or two of the other children around here. I some how came into that title." spoke Airez to this Aoshi character, gracious to converse to another man rather than the usual entray of women. They were fine and all, but a guy has to talk to a guy every so often as well (To keep his sanity) "The little one has grown accustomed to headbutting my armor and getting scratched behind the ear. He'll grow to lvoe you if you do that little action alone."

Guinevere, getting a little sad that Keita's attention wasn;t on her and noticing someone else was scritching him decided to focus on the new friend. She took a bear plushie in one arm and a container of raisins in the other and crawled toward him.

She eventually plopped herself in front of him and held out both to him with a wide, drippiling smile.

Aoshi shook his head, setting Keita on the floor near Guin to give his poor arms a rest. "He's spoiled. The only thing he wants is ear scritches...therefore, he gets everything he wants." His expression was, however, affectionate. "For an only child, I sure as hell got a lot of siblings fast."

Keita blinked, shaking himself with his ears flapping as he noted his change of location. Dark green eyes brightened, and he crawled towards her quickly before snuggling. "Mrrrr!!" He glanced up at the newcomer, sniffing slightly...vaguely suspicious, in that 'omg play with me?!' kind of way.


Karan looked from the stuffed bear to the rasins to the girl. She didn't have fluff at all. In fact, she looked absolutely normal. And the toy looked soft. He put out a hand to pet it, still looking at the girl in front of him.

Guinevere giggled happily that Keita was next to her and she snuggled him happily, scratching him behind the ears just a little. She didn't want to seem like she didn;t want to play with this new legend, she wanted to play with both. She put the plushie and the snack on the floor after biting off the lid to the snack and put her fist into the contain, producing a fist full of raisins. She then procedded to shove them into her mouth and chew happily, her other hand pointing at each lengend in turn and then the container saying it was ok to eat her snack.

Fascinated, Keita reached out for raisins, peering closely at this new Legend. he reached out to touch the boy's hair, peering at him intently...."Mrrr?" It was obvious he was terribly curious about this new person. After all, he didn't smell like a threat...like SOME people.


Convinced it was okay, Karan dropped his outstreched hand onto the plushie and rubbed it. It was soft and fluffy, not in the same way the wings were, but it still felt nice. With the other hand he pulled a rasin out of the container, but didn't eat it yet. Instead, his hand drifted towards the boy. He looked like he was pretty soft...maybe he could pet him?

"I can only imagine. I think I spoiled my child as well, when he was younger that is." spoke Airez, crossing his arms over his chest and looking down at the children playing upon the floor, "Then I pretty much had to teach him that life's harder than I showed it to him. Pretty much he's learned to be more independent and self-reliant, something I'm trying to get many of my 'children' to understand and learn."

Looking up once more, he sighed and turned his eyes back towards the large man, "But then again, there is little that a person can do towards a baby. You have to spoil them before they know any better."

Guinievere smiled as she watched the boys take her snack and look at each other. Hopefully they were doing it in a friendly way. She saw Karan's hand and knew what to do. She grasped it around his wrist and placed it on one of Keita's ears. He would like that. He was all about the ear scritches she though, nodding to Karan as she let go of his hand.

She took her little fist out of her mouth then reached for Karan's pretty scarves.


Blinking curiously, Karan looked at the girl, then started to scratch the boy's ear. It was soft, softer than the teddy even, and he smiled as he kept stroking and scratching the ear. He didn't even notice the hands that were slowly moving towards his scarf.

"I wish you'd raised me, I didn't get the option of being spoiled," Aoshi told him, black eyes shining with amusement as he draped himself elegantly on the sofa to watch his little brother. ""I'd have probably milked the experience for all it was worth."

Keita leaned into Karan's touch, doe-like eyes pure and innocent and encouraging. He nuzzled against the boy, soft ears warm to the touch. "Mrrr? Mrrr!" Bliss....this was true happiness, for CERTAIN, when your friends taught new friends about ear scritches!!

Guinevere took the side that was bright yellow in color in her tiny hands and brought it to her cheek and nuzzled against it. It was soo cool to the touch and soft, not like fuzzy soft, just soft soft.

"Neither did I." mentioned Airez, standing up and repositioning his armor before looking down at the children. "I wasn't exactly gifted with such a childhood either. But I guess I compensate that with others."

His head held up, the man started towards the door with his hand riasing slowly. "I must be going, it's beena long day for me and I have a little work to attend to. Until next time we meet, Aoshi. Take care of the little ones for me, won't you?"



Karan leaned carefully into Keita, taking the hand that was still stroking the bear and bringing it up to the other ear. This was much softer than the bear was, and warmer... but he wasn't so sure he liked the warm part.

He also wasn't so sure he liked the scratchy feeling he got around his neck when the girl started touching his scarf. Frowning, he took one of the screetching hands and tugged at the scarf, pulling it back towards himself.

"Smiiile?" Keita queried, tilting his head at his new friend. His horn buds were soft, too...and they always itched, but this person didn't seem all the way happy...? Maybe ear scritches could wait...

"I think I can do that," Aoshi murmured, watching him leave appreciatively. He smiled a bit, listening...so cute, Keita making baby talk like that.

Guinevere pouted and let go of the soft, soft scarf. She took her bin of raisins and brought it a little closer to her, less likely to share so readily now that he wouldn't. She reached her fist into the raisin bin and took some out a little angrily and shoved them in her mouth, half sad, half angry that this legend didn't know how to share. After all, Prana always shared her hats!

Karan coughed a little and let the scarf go, smoothing it out carefully. He hadn't minded her looking at it, but he had to give it to her, or it started to hurt. And now she was mad at him...

"Sorry guys, but I have to steal your friend back." DS smiled at the babies and picked up the pale pouting one, who had started clinging to the dark side of his scarf again. "You'll see him again soon, I promise."

Karan looked down at his two new aquaintances and waved one hand slowly. He wasn't sure if he liked the girl... but she did show him soft things and the boy's ears, so that was good. And the boy was soft and nice!

"Good night," DS murmured to the room in general, as she exited with one grumpy baby, one sulky Tala, and a crepe pan.

((So sorry for leaving this hanging... and good night all!))