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"They do," Alyse agreed firmly. "I was only twelve at the time. That was fifteen years ago already! They're overdue!"

Timaeus simply laughed.


Ulani was indeed in the kitchen with Ryu and Ruran. She was working on cleaning up Ryu's wrist. Ruran was sitting in a chair, scowling darkly - and for once sitting very, very still. The reason for this was obvious: he was surrounded by three rings of white-hot fire that were very close to touching and burning him.

Ulani looked over her shoulder at Feng and shook her head. "He'll be fine. I just want to make sure it's clean before I heal it up."

She looked up at Ryu. "Do you want it healed or just bandaged?"

Healing it magically wouldn't be unnaturally, really, since all her magic did - for healing anyways - was speed up the process.

The corners of Ulani's mouth turned up in a smile at Naida's question, but she didn't answer, leaving it to Ryu to do so - since it was directed at him in the first place. Instead, she began to sing softly. The skin around his wound slowly closed in and came together, and then healed over entirely.

Ruran was watching the entire ordeal with a mixture of curiosity and hunger. Here was his first real time viewing what Ulani was capable of, and there was a look in his eye that said that he wanted that power for himself.

Ruran turned his eyes to Naida, his look changing from hungry to disgusted.

"I just might eat you," he snapped, "if you don't shut your mouth - stupid fish!" He snarled angrily at her.

Without looking at him, Ulani altered her song so that the rings of fire constricted slightly around the boy.

While Ulani had never witnessed a growth before, she had sort of guessed at what to expect - since she had seen the difference in size from Kaito from one day to the next. So she wasn't overly surprised - or at least, she didn't let it show.

"Kanis and Aras are sharing the first room on the left down the hall," she told Feng, still examining Ryu's wrist. "There should be some shirts there that fit her."

As for Ruran, growths like that were nothing new - he himself had grown like that, why would he be impressed by someone else's growth?

"Don't think that makes me scared of you!" he growled, not at all caring that Naida was now just as big as - or perhaps even bigger than - him. "You better watch yourself, fish!"

If Ruran could move, he would have jumped after the mermaid - but at it was, he only stared murderously at her.

"Just you wait," he muttered under his breath. "Just you wait."

Meanwhile, Ulani had finished with Ryu's injuries, and she sat up and smiled at him. "There," she murmured. "How does it feel?"

"You're welcome," Ulani smiled back warmly at him. "I'm afraid there's nothing I can do for scars, I do apologize for that."

Which meant there was every likelihood that Ryu would have the double arch of teeth marks around his wrist for a very long time, perhaps forever.

Ulani nodded. "I'm just glad it wasn't," she murmured. "But I'm glad you're all right. And as for you ..." She turned and glared at Ruran. "I'm still trying to figure out what to do with you ... you're a monster. Nothing I've tried with you has worked, neither has anything your father has tried."

Ruran smirked. "Well good luck with that," he sneered. "You really think sitting in a chair is going to do anything for me?"

Ulani narrowed her eyes. "If I were you, I would shut my mouth right now," she said quietly.

"Or what?" the boy challenged her openly. "You'll kill me?"

"Don't think the thought hasn't crossed my mind," she muttered darkly.