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Airyn made another grab at the feather as it went by, but Riven stopped her. He grinned as Ghlyssa tugged lightly at his hair, threading the quill back on the bead where the old feather had been. He could smell the scent from her flowers, and Airyn...

Ick. Airyn needed a diaper change.

But still. Why on earth had he thought it was a good idea to just run away from all this? Just because of a dream?

He shivered involuntarily, then leaned forward when he realized Ghlyssa was done, and caught her with a kiss on the lips. "Forgive me?"

Airyn: The Sky, The Clouds And You

"Abadabee." Airyn scooted across the floor. It wasn't QUITE crawling, not yet, but it was getting there. Whatever it was, this baby could move, and move fairly quickly at that. She scootched along over the soft mossy floor, pausing to wrap her fingers around chair legs and poke at interesting things.

"Daboooooh?" Oh! That was interesting. Curled up under the corner shelf was something brightly-colored, and small, and... reachable? Airyn tried, wriggling her chubby fingers at the temptingly bright fuzzy ball. One finger managed to tap it.

"Chrt!" Instantly, the ball uncurled into... an animal?

WOW.

This was the coolest thing Airyn had ever seen! She managed to tap it again, mostly by luck.

"Chrt? Cht CHT," Dillin complained, drawing himself up to his full, diminutive height and fluffing his ruff at her.

"AaaaaYEEEEEE!" Airyn giggled, turning the laugh into a happy high-pitched shriek at the end. Dillin cringed and folded his ears in on themselves with his paws, then shook his tail at Airyn and bounded out from under the shelving.

"Ahababababa," she babbled, pulling herself around and looking at the kiri with wide blue eyes. "Aaaaaah."

"Chrt cht?" Dillin jumped and landed on her head, then vigorously began to groom the few whisps of hair that Airyn DID have. She giggled wildly and kicked her feet happily, her toes making temporary dents in the moss.

Dillin jumped off, then bounded for the door. Airyn followed, pulling herself along energetically, making little interested sounds as she did so. "Saaaaaaababababa," she informed Dillin as she caught up to him again.

"Chrtt CHT cht chrrr," the kiri informed her, then jumped up and bounched on the door handle. Once-twice-down! and the door swung open.

Ooooh...

Airyn crawled out over the threshold, with Dillin following. "Aaaahooooooooooooh," she cooed, pulling a flower out of the nearest flowerbed and shoving it in her mouth. "Pfftoo," she told Dillin, spraying him with bits of chewed-up petals. He did not seem impressed.

Curiously, Airyn explored the rest of the garden, at least within a two-foot radius of the front door. Rocks were picked up, tasted, and returned with a yuck face; most flowers were licked at at least once, if not twice. A few ants did not taste very good, and the wet bit of a trail of slug slime even less so. Dillin rode on her head the whole way, mostly to escape being spit on.

"Dooorah," she said, finally, and kicked until she was laying on her back, peering up at the blue sky through the branches. "Baaah-tah. BahTAH! Tah tah tah tah," she babbled, waving her hands at the high-up clouds. So fluffy and nice! She wanted them. "TaaaaahBAH," she ordered, but they wouldn't come down.

Hmph.

"AaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH," she yelled, finally, when she was tired. Dillin jumped up and ran all around her making frantic little chirps.

"Hey... how'd you get out here? Ah... Dilli, BAD," Riven scolded, and his shadow fell over Airyn as he scooped her up. "What have you been... ew, did you eat that?" Riven made a face as Airyn happily wiggled her tongue at him, spraying him with bits of debris. "Don't eat random stuff. That's icky."

"BahTAH. Taaaah bahbahbah," Airyn said importantly, looking up and waving at the clouds. "Wananananana."

"Cloud. Sky," Riven said, pointing up. "Leaves. Don't eat any of those."

"Taaah." Airyn waved energetically at Dillin as Riven carried her inside.

The kiri sighed, then curled up in a spot in the sun. He flipped the puff on the end of his tail over his nose, and went to sleep again. Quiet at last.

RP Session: Babysitting

"I showed you where Airyn's bottle is, right?" Ghlyssa wrung her hands nervously. "And the baby food? And where the diapers are? You don't think you'll have too much trouble with that?"

"You showed me, Glee. Really." Bronnie tilted her head, a little perplexed at all this fuss. "And I think I can manage a diaper. It's not that hard."

"But... but... the..."

"We'll be fine," Bronnie said confidently. Really, it couldn't be that hard. "Airyn and I get along okay, right?"

Bronnie waved after them, and peered down at Airyn.

Well.

"Oh, man, I don't know anything about babies..." She screwed up her face. "I don't know what--HEY." She jumped a little when Airyn grabbed her. "That's my tail..." Bronnie made an attempt to wriggle her tail free from Airyn's grip.

"Ow ow ow OW." Tears reflexively sprung to Bronnie's eyes. "Don't DO that, Airyn. That hurts." She reached down to try to detangle her tail from Airyn and pick the kid up. "Oh, geez. Too bad you don't understand that, huh. C'mon up, you."

"Ew." Bronnie wiped irritably at the tears--good thing no one was around to see that, but it had hurt. "Yuck, Airyn. That's so gross..." It occurred to her that even with all the things that Ghlyssa had made sure she knew where they were, she wasn't sure where a tissue or something might be.

And then she'd have to use her sleeve or something to wipe Airyn's face, and then was just way too gross.

"I guess we can go look in the kitchen for a dishcloth or something..."

Into the kitchen. Yes. Okay.

Bronnie found a cloth and went immediately to wipe Airyn's face, and discovered the situation had worsened. "Oh, man, Airyn." Were all babies this gross? She wiped at Airyn's face carefully around the hand in her mouth.

Bronnie made a face. What was she supposed to do here? That cloth was clean, right? It better be. It was certainly clear she wasn't going to get Airyn's face wiped off.