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"I still don't trust him," She said again, and edge to her voice. "And I Really don't like his family. Don't like them, don't trust them. And I wish mom was here..." Her mother was Angel of Music, the oldest of their herd, the one they looked to as leader, but she had left with Music of the night. The leaders of two of the largest herds had left, they said they needed a vacation. In her mother's absence, Seraphina felt it was her duty to watch over the herd. She may not have been the eldest child, or even the eldest daughter, but she cared about her family and she needed to make sure nothing happened to them. Dimitri, she realized. He is part of my family. Of course he was. And even if she didn't know, couldn't understand, what it was he wanted with her, she knew she had to take care of him as well. That was her responsibility.

"Nothing," Alex said slyly trotting past her. "So what are we going to do now that we're free from the creepy cave?'

"But you don't have to worry about them anymore," Alex reminded her. "You out of there now, remember?"

"So did Mom," Seraphina said shaking her head. "Yet for some reason she was willing to 'forgive and forget,' very unusual for my mother. Then again, I guess she didn't have much choice when Sirena showed up pregnant...You know what I hate?" she continued without waiting for an answer. "I really hate how the whole pregnancy thing works around here..."

"I'm not the one still cringing at creepy crawlies," Alex pointed out.

"Yeah, haven't you noticed?" she said tilting her head. "This has been a subject of great interest to me. You see first the parents spend a lot of time together, they're happy, they're having fun and so on. That's alright. Then suddenly the female tends to notice something is...a little off. And she realizes - she's pregnant. So then she sits there and stresses "How do I tell what's-his-face" and eventually musters the courage to do that. But it's not over yet, then she has to tell her parents, and his parents and both of them are scared to death to tell her father...." Seraphina rolled her eyes in disgust. "I hate it all so much. It's like these babies they Keep bringing in aren't really wanted. I mean, if you're going to have a baby, you should at least be happy about it! Be excited! Not "How do I tell so-and-so" worrying about it. It just drives me crazy..."

"You could have just fried the little bugger," Alex suggested smirking.

"It's not the whole parents thing either," Seraphina shook her head. "It's how the parents to be act. I mean, they should be happy, over joyed...not sitting there sniveling." She glanced back over at him, "Sorry, bet that was a bit more than you wanted to hear on that topic."

"That would be the general idea," Alex chuckled.

Seraphina though on that for a few moments, "If I ever do, I would want to be happy, elated, about it. Not another mother who fears telling her parents, I want to want to tell them..."

"Yeah come on," Alex said moving to walk beside. "You can lean on me, you know, if you need to."

Seraphina blinked. "Well, of course," she said slowly. "I would want their happiness to match my own..." She shifted nervously. "Alex and Takako are already gone, we should probably go too."

End of Act I xd

Dimitri couldn't stay his straying thoughts as he watched her from the shadows as she flew. He didn't want to interrupt her so he didn't do or say anything, simply watched. She had grown into adulthood and Dimitri felt the burden of his soul, his instincts to take her but he pushed them back. She still wasn't ready and he feared she may never be ready.....