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Pash was ecstatic to say the least, he had been contacted by his superiors and while his punishment was not yet over and he would not be regaining his wings quiet yet he would be given a special gift. His mother would be permitted to come and visit him for a month.

It had been far too long since Pash has seen or heard from either of his parents and while they were always capable of watching him and his makeshift family they'd never really been introduced. Their approval meant a lot to him and to have his mother there would been both frightening and yet a relief becuase he knew the woman, though long past her child rearing years would not hesitate to try and run the household as if it were her own.

Nevertheless Pash intended to put as little burden on her as possible and was already planning things for all of them to go see and do together to keep his mother from spending too much time in the house.

" What if she doesn't like us?"

Pash was jarred out of his thoughts by the sound of a nervous Anao's voice. The usually confident amber eyed girl seems distressed and was staring at a watch on her wrist as if the steady movement of the second hand ticking soother her.

With a smile Pash reached out and ruffled her cranberry red hair. " Your grandmother will like you" he reassured her " there's nothing not to like."

Anao only frowned and played with some of Connors hair . " But what if she doesn't. What if she hates us becuase.. becuase we're not really her grandchildren." Here Anao's voice dropped to a whisper.

Pash sighed softly " Family is more than blood Anao" he looked over at Owen and Rekha to make sure they got the message as well. " You're her grandchildren becuase you are my children blood or not. Beyond that you are good children and there is no reason for her not to like you. Just be yourself and i promise things will be fine."

Pash knew there was something deeper in all of this and he would need to talk with his children before his mother came but for now Anao seemed placated and the other children were voicing no concerns.

ORP: history in a box
link: http://www.gaiaonline.com/guilds/viewtopic.php?t=12119679

Summary: Owen meets up with some fellow Edens at the museum and discusses dinosaur eating habits.

Small fluffy white seeds floated by Owen's face carried by the summer breeze and the breath of his little brother.

" Rekha stop that if you blow the seeds they'll just fall in the garden and grow and then they'll be even more of them." Owen wasn't mad so much as irritated and it showed with the pained tone to his voice. He'd been weeding the garden for an hour already and he had no desire to have the task be this bad again in a few weeks. Sure new weeds would grow and some of the smaller plants would need removing for the sake of the healthier ones but those were expected evils. Seeds that ended up planted by Rekha playing around was not on the list of things he wanted to deal with. Especially not when it was finally summer and Owen was free to spend his days as he pleased.

" It's pretty though and I'll come back an help I promise." As far as Rekha was concerned the seeds that flew off a dandelion when you blew on it were beautiful, so small and fluffy and they danced in the air like stars in the night. It was beautiful and calming especially after the hard vigorous work of helping Owen pull up weeds.

It wasn't that Rekha didn't want to help Owen, in fact he had found it fun to see who could get the bigger pile of weeds and they had talked a lot while they worked , about the weather about their family and sometimes just about random stuff.It had been really nice ( especially when Owen helped him pull out plants that had dug their roots firmly into the soil of the garden bed) but eventually had gotten boring and tiring.

With a sigh the young boy flopped onto his back and let his coppery orange bangs fall into his eyes blocking out the sun. " No more please?"

Owen sighed and looked at Rekha, the job was nearly done and would go faster with two of them but Rekha was still young and easily tired so pushing him wasn't really fair. Besides he'd been great company and help all morning and Owen didn't want to spoil his brother's mood after all he'd done.

" Ok just just stay there and I'll finish up."

" and then ice cream right" Rekha had been given ice cream money by their father for agreeing to help Owen. Not that he had required it in order to help it had been a surprise he'd gotten going out the door.

" Home, baths and then ice cream, I don't want dirt in it." Owen might be agreeable to gardening for the sake of harvesting food later but he still hated being dirty, hence why unlike Rekha he wore gardening gloves and brushed dirt off him as much as possible. None the less some clung to his clothes and even hair and ears, reminders of some of Rekha's overzealous weed pulling antics. all of that meant the possibility of tiny clumps of dirt falling in his food and Owen was having none of that.

" Fine" Rekha huffed softly and turned his attention to the large fluffy white clouds flitting across the sky.

Owen smiled , shifted few feet to the left and dug his gloved hand back into the sun warmed soil to finish the weeding.

PD with Dylan
link : http://www.gaiaonline.com/guilds/viewtopic.php?t=12960145
summary: Owen gets recruited to befriend Dylan.

Birds, Bunnies and Books
PRP with Raven

It had been a while since Raven had read a new book, and so one lazy rainy Sunday, Raven asked Shane to drive her down to the Barton Library so that she could get herself a library card and pick up a few new books. He agreed and said that he'd pick her up in two hours at the front entrance, and he packed her a small boxed lunch to eat while she was there. It didn't take her long to get her library card either, just a quick sign of her name and some clicks of a keyboard and she was in the system. She was then free to roam about the Library as she pleased, and so she took off immediately towards the Children's fiction section to see if she could find any books on butterflies or princesses. The first book that caught her eye was about a talking goldfish, which she immediately picked up because she thought it sounded funny...after all, the librarian lady said it was free as long as she returned them on time.


Owen was flipping through the Children's audio book section when he felt a shiver go down his spine. Ignoring it for the moment he went back his search. The boy had come here for a couple of audio books. Something he could listen to on the way to and from school or while he did his chores. Anao called it lazy reading but Owen had always enjoyed being read to and it wasn't as if he couldn't read; his worn camera manuals and report cards were proof enough of that.

Encyclopedia Brown, that sounded weird but worth investigating. Coal black eyes scanned the back of the package for information. Genius boy detective solves crimes. Didn't sound too bad. Picking up the first three volumes Owen clutched them carefully in one hand before going to investigate the source of his sudden alertness.


It wasn't until Raven had a stack of ten books that she was carrying towards the Silent Reading section of the library that she felt the Eden-Tingle. This one was weird too, oddly familiar but she didn't remember it being this strong. Still, she had a mountain of books and didn't want to carry them all over the library in search of who it was...she wanted to read! Besides, she thought, with the way these things tended to work, it would probably end up finding her. Smiling to herself at her inginuity, Raven dived into her first book entitled "The amazing story of Teen-Boat!"

Owen walked slowly out of the children's section having felt the after affect of the shiver lessen, whoever it was was moving away. Hoping they didn't leave the library, he'd lose them stopping to check out, Owen followed the faint sensation until he spotted a girl he swear he'd seen before. He knew he'd never laid eyes on her but she looked so familiar. Feeling the shiver return full forced he walked over to her and peered down curiously. " I'm sorry to interrupt your reading but do you know about something called the Eden project." Oh good it sounded like he was selling religion.

Bingo! Right on cue. Raven lowered her book to look up at the boy with long ears and giggled at how awkward he seemed to feel.

"Uh-huh! Looks like you found me." Raven kidded as she cleared a spare sitting pillow for her visitor, "My name's Raven, what's yours?"

Owen smiled and took the offered cushion, folding his long legs under himself carefully. " I'm Owen." He looked at her arms curiously " Is it hard to have those, they don't look like they make wearing clothes easy." Long ears and a tail were one thing to accommodate, they were easy to work with but feathers growing along your arms couldn't be easy.


Wow, this boy was right to the point. That was fine, she didn't take any offense, she just never really was commented on her appearance before by another Eden.

"Well, just a little bit." Raven explained "I just wear things with bigger long sleeves or really really short ones. The feathers go through them really neatly, I only get stuck if I'm not careful...like a feather duster." Raven paused to think "It's only really bad in the summer when I start...molting I think it's called. It really makes my room a mess, and I have to brush them four times a day."

Owen nodded slowly that seemed to make sense, at least the girl wasn't suffering becuase of her animal aspect. He'd always wondered of there were Edens who did, like a fish Eden who couldn't walk or something. " I shed sometimes" he frowned" It really sucks if bits of hair just fall out into your cereal" he imagined the girl had probably had a feather or two do the same while reaching for the spoon.

Raven tried hard to stifle her laugh in the library, she knew all to well the pains of reaching over stuff.

"It's really bad when I have to use glue or paper mache! I got my whole arm stuck to bristol board one time. I had to cut off lots of feathers that day, and so that's why I wear long sleeves now when working with that sort of stuff. The shirt gets messy, but that's okay....maybe you should wear a big hat or something?" Raven suggested.


" Pash doesn't allow us to use papermache anymore, although that was mostly becuase Rekha kept trying to eat it" There was a pained tinge to Owen's voice as he mentioned his lost brother.

A hat hmm? Maybe it would at least keep his ears secured enough so they had to just dangle at his sides. " I can't tuck them completely or it would hurt plus I don't think there's a hat big enough to fit all of them in there. Considering each ear fell to nearly the bottom his ribs. " I make Elephants jealous"