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A squeal from the doorway, at his back, informs him that someone has just been royally feathered and he quickly reabsorbs them.

Luna laughs merrily. "Uhuh.... buff I tink Mama will gets mad iffin ye do dat agwin...."

A serving maid comes in carrying a tray filled with meat stuffed pastries. "M'Lady... where... where... should I put these?" she begs, her eyes wide with alarm.

At Lyssan's nod, the maid quickly does as he asks, then flees the room, no doubt to tell the kitchen staff about her close encounter with some sort of feathery monster.

Luna looks up at Lyssan and asks. "Mama, why was she so scawed?"

Luna shakes her head furiously. "You no die..... you nots awwowed to die...." she says firmly, trying to climb across to his lap and upsetting her water dish.

Lyssan quickly snatches it up and prevents a flood with a quick application of her napkin, adding Ame's as he hands it to her.

"Kero is fine, Sweetling. But he's given us more than a few scares of late. I'm all for holding a vote... we should wipe that little term from his memory... no dying fer ye, my friend... not fer a long long time.

"Here... here..." calls Keveka raising his glass. Everyone at the table does the same, reminding Kerobian he's amongst people who view him as family and would be very much at a loss if they should ever lose him.

Luna snuggles close, her dinner forgotten, as she worriedly nibbles on his fingers. "You no die.... wight?" she demands to know.

The kitsune grins mischievously at him. "Not iffin I get to yer head first.... oh stop glaring daggers at me, Kero. Ye know I don't mess in people's heads without good reason. It's a bad precedence to take. Ye tinker here... then ye got to tinker there cause that is connected somehow.... then ye got to tinker there to make up for the gaps here... It's messy and I hate messy...."

"Wuffs precedens, Daddy?" asks Luna worriedly. "Iffin its bawd... I don wanna do it ewider."

"I wouldn't, Sweetling... That was what I was telling him... that I wouldn't do it.... I would never hurt your Daddy. He's like one of my children... like you... or Keva... or Tam.... or...." suddenly her eyes grow sad and distant, then she shakes herself and smiles thinly. "Let's just say I'd never harm any of you. Fair enough?"

She smiles at Kerobian and nods sadly. "I know. I know. But it's something that just won't go away... and in a way I pray it never does. How could I forget? Why would I forget? It makes no sense... She was real... not a story or a dream.... One day she was here and then.... gone... "

Amestru rests his hand lightly on her shoulder and sqeezes it gently. "Lyssie... What Kero means is..."

"I know what he means... and I agree... dwelling on it is painful... but I won't forget.... I can't... my memories are all I have."

She smiles fondly at him and reaching over grips his hand tightly. "I know. It wasn't your fault. None of it. She made a choice, an active choice, and nothing we could have said or done would have changed her mind. We all know that now. No Luna... we're not talking about you, dear... we're talking about someone else, someone who was very dear to all of us.Someone who would stand there with her hands on her hips and scold us right now for ruining your dinner, so lets find you some fish, shall we?"

"I wike fiwsh..." says Luna softly climbing back into her chair, but she keeps looking at Lyssan and Kero worriedly, unsure of what to say or do.