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Malum loved this game. Women, seduced by his angelic looks, bent over him, cooing, and holding out fingers for him to grab, while neglecting his darker looking sister... But did he grab them? Of course not! He BIT them. You'd think they'd learn, but he'd done it twenty-seven times since they'd gotten to the mall. Indu knew. She was counting. The scowling redhead once more had the children strapped to herself. Or, Malum anyways. Levis wasn't the one who wriggled and tried to get Indu to drop her.

Levis, was actually enjoying being out of the house, even if she was slightly lonely and overlooked. The only people who really paid her any attention were the creepy wannabe punk-goth kids, who scared her. At least Indu stroked her hair occasionally, and Mal frequently sent her his wickedly adorable grin.

Right now, the three Reevers were waiting in line at a piercing booth in the center of the walkway. Was Indu getting pierced? Nope. Guess again. The twins were.

"Zah ?" Kishi asked

Malen just shook his head and laughed while continuing topush the stroller ." No sweety no Zah at the mall at least I think not. " Ever since their last encounter with Neveah and her baby ghost Kishi had been repeating her favorite word, technically it was her only word and not a true word but with Zasalamels nickname being Zah the succubus child had quickly taken advantage of being able to pronounce a form of her friends name.

As they continued their trek through the mall Malen's train of thought was broken as Kishi let out a squeal and pointed her wand at a woman and a cute pair of babies. " Ings , ings" Kishi yelled pointing her wand at them.

" yes kishi they have wings just like you " Malen murmured amused thinking nothing of it but purposefully heading in that direction anyways knowing full well Kishi would raise hell with her yelling if she didn't get to investiage even a bit more.

Malum's green eyes narrowed at the sound, and quickly located it. A little girl? Once more, he ws the picture of innocence, and he grinned charmingly. He liked girls. Or, all the ones he'd met anyway, so it was a general assumption.

Indu glanced over, and quirked a brow at the sight of the pair. A kid with a wand? AND wings? Was it another one of those things...? What were they called, again? Ah, Ghosts of the Past? Shifting the quiet Levis in her arms, she turned to face them, smiling slightly.

"So you've got one too, 'ave ya?"

Levis' eyes widened, and she turned a pinkish color at the sight of Kishi, rather timid and shy around strangers. Even young strangers.

Malum, on the other hand, sneered and peered at them from his spot on his mother's back.

"Ey, preddee url!"

Hey, pretty girl. What a smooth talker he was. Not.

Kishi grinned the winged boy talked to her, oh how she enjoyed when the winged ones talked to her. Suddenly struck by a thought of an image the those she had seen on t.v Kishi slowly blew a kiss at the boy and grinned before waving at the pretty winged female. Though she had no clue what his reaction would be the amused sound she got from her father was worth it.

Malen snorted "Oh joy and the succubus flirts already just what I need." With a mock sighed he looked at the caretaker of these children. Ahh she must be the one ianna had spoken of with the twins. She certianly wasn't a d-corp guardian since the children resembled no animals he knew of. " yes I have a ghost of the past as well this is Kishi my daughter"

"Mmmn."

Indu's eyes caught Kishi's movement, yet she didn't seem to mind and gave a sort of half-smile to Malen.

"I'm Indu, and this is Levis and Malum. Lee and Mal respectively."

Malum simply continued on with his grin, and... Was that a wink?! What a horrible little boy he was! He LIKED this girl. Pretty, winged, and with kisses!

Levis, on the other hand, was very confused, and hid her face against Indu's shirt, whimpering. Indu muttered something to the babe, and Lee peeked out at Kishi, slowly wiggling her fingers back in response.

"Say, once I get these tykes pierced, why don't we let them get to know each other, eh?"

Kishi eyed Lee and have a soft smile, she had dealth with shy ones before and she kenw it was best not to push them. To Malum she sent a pleased coo. It was nice to meet one so friendly, the shiny boy and the fiery one were friendly too but they were not there and he was so she would take advanatge of this chance to play with him. Kishi breifly wonderfd if he would fight with her like Zah.

"I'm Malen and you've got cute kids, and sure once you're done here they can play and we can talk." Malen was always interested in meeting new guardians and seeing how kishi reacted to their charges.

Well, it didn't work out entirely as planned. Levis was not fond of pain, and was far too scared to get her ears pierced, while Malum seemed just fine with it. In fact, he got BOTH ears pierced. Twice in his left lobe, and once in the ear's cartiledge, and twice in his right ears catiledge.

Moments later, Indu set both twins in the mall's child play area, and collapsed onto a bench, glancing up at Malen with a weary smile.

"They're one twin set of three in my house. All below the age of six."

Malum immediantly patted his sister on the cheek, to reassure her that he was fine, then turned his attention to the more interesting Kishi. The angelic looking boy was actually the meaner twin, and her raised his brows at her appraisingly.

"'Ullo..."

Having placed Kishi down with the twins Malen joined indu on the bench . he just shook his head in shock " Well damn that's a lot of kids I've only got Kishi and Del and Coailiann by proxy of being with Ianna i'm not sure i couldn handal more even if i wanted them.

Kishi stared at malums earrings for a moment, she shivered at the tought of placing thigns in her ears. it was ok to make her daddy do so but not for her no she likes her body as it was. "Ullo" she copied she boy and streched out her wings. lifitng her wand she jabbed it gently in his direction, perhaps the boy would play.

"Oh, those aren't all the kids in my house. Those are the twin sets."

She laughed dryly, and raised a brow as she registered his second comment.

"You're seeing Ianna...? Hrm... The twins know Coailiann..."

Malum curled a lip in distaste of his space being entered without permission, and swatted her wand away from him with a hand. He was quite sweet to his "favorites" by he was a little a*****e to most everyone.

Levis lightly pushed her brother's shoulder as if to tell him to be nice, and shot Kishi a real smile, crawling a bit closer, and sort of putting herself between the other two children.

Malen nodded " Yes she's the love of my life followed by all my children in a nonsexual way , Kay knows just about all the kids which I'm starting to think may be a bad thing, we may need to lock up all the men. How many children do you have?" he inquired.

Pleased at having won over the shy girl atleast temporarily Kishi smiled back. She shot Malum a look that clearly stated she was annoyed with him but that she would continue to tolerate him if he behaved. looking at Lee's wings she cooed they were similar to hers and that amused her since so far none of the other winged ones had wings like hers.

"Upwards of thirty, although they're not all mine. More like... A giant foster home."

Indu shrugged, and laughed at his comment about Coailiann.

"She tried to kill Malum, actually, but then they decided they liked each other. What about Kishi, though? She's a... You a said a succubus? Mal... Looks like an angel, but he's an evil little b*****d. Not that I don't still love him. Levis... Her looks are also deceptive. I've never met a gentler baby."

Malum's eye narrowing toward Kishi seemed to say the same thing her's had said to him, and he pushed his twin sister out of the way, so he could move closer to Kishi, in case he needed to hit her.

Levis had fluttered her wings for Kishi's enjoyment before being knocked onto her back. "Oomfing" and sitting back up, she made no move to retaliate, and instead, looked at Mal with wounded eyes, before reaching out with gentle fingers and feeling Kishi's wings. They felt... Strange. Like hers, but not. Definately not like Malum's.

"thirty " I'd go crazy, you must never have any time alone." Malen shook his head it was a nice thing this Indu woman did and he doubted that compassionate and child loving as he was that he could possibly handel that many kids. " Yeah Kishi's a succubus but I don't think her powers have emerged yet since she isn't sexually mature. She's also not really agressive or dangerous infact most peopel find her cute more than anythign and she seems to love the attention. perhaps becuase she's only half succubus.

"ahhie?'" kishi squeaked at the touch, no one but her family had touched her wings before well except Zah but that had been with his wand. The warm flesh on the cool membranze was an intresting feeling and she wriggled with glee ignoring the malum for the time being, if he got agressive she'd thwack him one good but if he was nice again she'd forgive him.

Levis' wings were definately bigger than Kishi's, but being unsure, she stretched them out to their full span experimentally, and trailed her fingers along Kishi's wing softly before pulling away. Pretty Kishi.

Not to be outdone, Malum extended his feathered ones, flapping them once or twice and rolling his little shoulders to stretch them. He'd never seen hair as dark as the girl's in front of him, and reached out to tug on it. Not painfully hard, but not as gentle as one of Levis' touches either.

"Naww, I say 'upwards' because some I don't really count as kids. The older teens help take care of them, and my two sisters also live with me, so... It's... Intense, but fun, at home."

Kishi eyed both impressive wingspans thier wings were certianly big and beautifull. She grinned at lee and her wings "pree"

Malums wings were even more so and while she she longed to reack out for them she had a feeling it was bad idea. hissing softly but keeping her smile kishi accepted the hair pulling as fair trade for upsetting the boy earlier. she pointed to his wings and gave him a pleading look "pease ings" she wanted so much to touch them to see if they were as soft as they look.

" Ahh well that's better then. still how do you avoid playign favourite and succeed in being fair about everything with so many people in one house?"

Malum looked thoughtful for a long moment, but seemed to think it'd be alright, since he'd gotten to tug her hair. The boy moved a bit closer, and practically enclosed her in his light colored wings, signifying his approval with her. They actually WERE really soft. Sometimes, Levis slept on them, which didn't hurt, and made her happy, so, why not?

"'Kay. G'head."

Levis looked startled, and pleased that the two were actually sort-of getting along, and smiled, letting the interaction continue without her interruption.

"Well, since they've got so many siblings, none are spoiled, so, the older ones understand that most of our attention goes to those under 13. But honestly? Not everythings fair, because LIFE isn't fair. They know that too. Still, th' kids don't ask for anything that's not that important, so when they do ask for something, they usually get it. That and we eat in the big dining hall all together around three times a week, where it's sort of like a meeting, and we bring up issues and stuff."

Kishi smiled and rather than attempts to grasp the enourmous wings she let her fingers slide across the feathers. They felt so silky as soft as if they were barely there. her grey eyes reflected her pleasure at the touch and she tucked her own wings agsint her body , they didn't compare to such pretty soft things.

Malen nodded " sounds like an ideal family, fun love and attention for all. Mmm makes me miss gowing up , i loved beignwith my family, except our family meeting which were just sort of strange becuase we never really knew what my sister maria was going to say. she bottled up the strangest feelings or thoughts and relased them only then. so i'd leave the table thinking. so she's been ignoring me for a week becuase i accidently ran over her commanda with my bike and then i speant my allowance on candy instead of buying her a new toy. "

Ooooh, good touch. Malum almost purred in delight, and actually smiled at her, letting her continue to pet them. Levis actually noticed Kishi's movements, and remembered her own displeasure in the comparison of her wings to Mal's. Perhaps Kishi felt her wings were inferior? Lee reached out to pet the folded wings gently, as if trying to reassure the other baby.

"I tried to make my new family completely different from the one I grew up in."

And that's all she was saying about THAT abusive situation. Shooting Malen a forced smile she got to her feet, and cleared her throat.

"It was really nice meeting you, but I think we should get going..."

A glance toward the children and she dropped to a crouch beside them, smiling.

"Time to say g'bye, kiddos."

Malen gave a soft sigh, things had been going so well to, ah well he couldn't wn them all . " It was a pleasure to meet you and i look foreward to seeing you around."

Kishi cooed at lee feeling slightly better than looked up at Indu and huffed gently, they were going to go now and they'd barely even met. "Biee" she murmured

Indu reached for Malum, and the boy promptly bit down on her hand, causing her to curse and put him into her baby carrier. The boy's grin was pure wickedness as he blew a kiss to Kishi.

"G'bye, Kish!"

Levis went a lot quieter after one last pet to Kishi, and was cradled in her mother's arms. The redhead, glanced over at Malen again.

"We should meet up again, soon, alright?"

Without telling him how they'd meet up, the woman waved again and turned to leave the mall.

Malen just smiled at the sight of the retreating figure and picked up Kishi and placed her in the stroller. Kishi was simply far to stunned to respond in any way other than to wave at her departing friends.