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"Of course she was wrong, she underestimated me, but then again I guess the life I led before meeting your father probably led to that choice being given. In the end the only ones at fault is her for twisting her religion to fulfill her perverse desires, and myself for letting her get under my skin like that." Yuma smirked; "That kimono really looks good on you, we need a party to go to."

Yuma did her best to restrain the hunger she had so that the others could eat as well from the tray. She giggled a bit at the mention of a guy passed out in the peanuts; "I'd say that is the one good thing i have going for me right now. You won't need to come looking for me passed out somewhere, or getting me out of jail for busting someones chops for flirting with me." Yuma remembered something Martha saying that she wanted to pose a question about. "Martha kept saying children, and far as I know from what the doctors told me at the infirmary I'm only having one child. So why would she keep using the plural form, and would either of you be able to tell at this point if I'm actually having twins or just one?"

Yuma narrowed her eyes; "No need to rush, I would rather it turn out beautiful then have one flaw to it from unneeded haste, besides I need to change myself." Yuma's expression softened and she kissed him before moving off with a little sexy sway to her butt.

Yuma turned into her room once she was back upstairs and opened her personal closet to dig through it looking for something in particular. She found it hanging in the back and sliding it off the hangar she slid her clothing off and hung it up nicely.

She finished changing and closed the closet up and looked around her room. She checked the door and looking above her small desk she stared at her mother in the portrait picture with her father. Samantha looked uncomfortable in the picture, but Yuma couldn't understand why she would be with the man she loved right next to her.

Yuma checked the door again noticing it was still closed and closing her eyes she put memory to illusion. In the corner of the room it manifested into Merril, exactly how she was before their last strike.

Merril had a weak laugh; "Your mother was weak, incapable of killing a dragon, and went so far as to commit gross violations of our race. You are one such violation, and when she finally was caught we gave her the choice to either murder both you and the dragon or die. Its amazing how weak she was, she accepted the only one that granted her life, and it ended up being her death. I passed sentence on her but your father killed her, and I watched him do it. Watched him plead for her to stop, but in the end he cut her down and buried the truth in a lie to you. You've been searching for a mother that is already dead, the clues you've gotten are nothing more then lies fed to you by your father in order to maintain the lie."

Yuma kept herself calm; she didn't want to alert Kaos to stop what he was doing over ill feelings twice in one day. She looked back at the painting an shook her head, and with a wave the illusion vanished as she slid her door open to head over to the next room.

Sorrow's robe was the female version of the robes Toole was used to wearing and those SalSoon and Quannah wore frequently on their visits to Kaos's island. This particular pattern was white feathers on a blue background. Their were three black birds on it which stuck out due to the lighter colors. The one on her left breast was sitting on a nest, the bottom right standing on the hem was another unlike its counterpart had a orange beak.

She passed by the Akuma and Kaos to fiddle with a display, and the third on her back was larger them the first and was soaring up towards her right shoulder. She found what she was looking for and moved over to the mirror and using both her hands she weaved her hair into a single ponytail. She wrapped down from the base of it what appeared to be gold string, but in all reality it was garroting wire. She tucked the rings of it into the weave of her ponytail to keep its sinister purpose innocent to the eye.

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Akira groaned; "Can we just call it a day once we finish the stairs, we completely cleaned the downstairs, that has to be a record in the time we had, and we have tomorrow yet to finish the hard part." Jezabelle stopped scrubbing on the stairs with the brush and set it back in the bucket. "If we stop now its to make supper, and what else is on your mind right now?" "Going to Carnath's grand opening over at Sorrows place;" Akira stopped wiping up the water. Jezabelle glanced at Akira; "He is the one who runs a bar out of his house right?" Akira nodded; "He opened up for full time in Sorrows shop downstairs, and I would like to see what it looks like inside. I wouldn't be able to get in if you didn't come with me." Jezabelle shook her head no before turned back to her stair pulling the brush out of the bucket. "No Akira, unlike Ive's, Carnath's is a bit more wilder, and even with Ian on my side its asking for trouble to happen to us. So once Toole gets home you can ask him to take you, but we can go for a walk on this side of town if you wish to go outside once the stairs are done." Akira pouted; "I don't see why he couldn't protect us, and its not like carnath wouldn't help us if trouble started there." Jezabelle dumped the brush back into the bucket turning around and putting a sternness to her voice. "I said no, and that is the end of it Akira. You can have all your brothers and sisters there and I would still say no. You're too young, and I won't be responsible for putting us into a dangerous situation like that without Toole or Ailes giving me permission." "I thought you were free to do what you want, your old enough to decide for yourself, and don't need their permission." Jezabelle rose up off her knees to stand looking down at Akira. "I may not need their permission to go there, but YOU do since YOU are not old enough to decide for yourself. I'm not about to get myself into that kind of trouble just because your brother's grand opening, and I'm done discussing it Akira. One more word on it and your going straight to your room for the rest of the evening without supper." Akira huffed and just stood up and stormed up the steps and slammed her door closed and Jezabelle slumped a bit before sinking back down onto her knees. "I don't understand her Ian, she was so nice earlier, now she's being like her younger brothers all of a sudden, but can you go watch her so she doesn't sneak out."

Yuma shrugged; "Nothing with pasta in it, but pretty much everything else is fair game for my palate"

Yuma watched Akuma go; "I would pay money to see Lucid's face when she walks through the door. I keep nothing on hand for the sole fact I hardly ever know when I'm going to be here for any length of time." Yuma thought for a few minutes; "Lets go break into Toole's house, he keeps tons of food on hand, that boy is always prepared to keep an army fed."

Yuma started putting the lamps out; "I can hit the second story and twart the locks on the doors if he put the hardcore seals in place."

"Dearest, I was joking, Toole should be home, or Jezabelle should be there with Akira." Yuma growled at the crowd still outside her house; "Carnath and I are going to talk about hours of operation as well." Yuma held his hand and just smiled leaning on him as they walked; "You just get to protect me from Toole when he gets home."

"I'm with you now, so why not together, unless you're foreseeing a possible hold up once there, but you've plenty of comfy chairs for me to sit in while you get around to coming back here." Yuma looked back at her house; "Its going to be different being home all the time now, and tomorrow we definitely got to go shopping for groceries." Yuma smiled turning her head back to kiss his neck; "I'll go with, because you already know what your bringing and it shouldn't take you too long. I just hope I can stay awake for the return journey."