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As it would be, Phantom and her, ah, family had decided to have an outing to the park as well. That is, Phantom and her family minus one of their less agreeable members. He had decided to stay behind by himself. Perhaps that was why there was no overly loud arguement tracing their current conversation.

"I don't know why Hilian didn't want to come with us," Alex wondered off-handedly, hands held behind her back as she looked out at the park. Aw--she could see a young man and his kid sitting over there... "It's such a nice day."

Nevenn chuckled, shifting the weight of Jaque (who was sucking on a binkie to keep him from biting anything) on her hip. "Nah, the man's a vampire, I swear! He hates going out on nice days, doesn't appeal to him at all."

"Uncle HiHi's a vampire?" Cameo asked curiously, right at the cat-girl's side. "I didn' think he was... Muma said he's kind a like little brother Jaque."

Under her breath, so low that the Sin couldn't hear her, Nevenn mumbled, "And the kid's not?" Only to have Phantom stomp on her foot pointedly, causing the cat-girl to fake a grin. "I'm just kidding, Cam."

Phantom smiled thankfully at Nevenn and moved Asha on her hip. "Julii, Neon, go ahead by yourselves--Julii, you're older, watch Neon for me will you?" Julii looked sideways at Neon, who grinned mischieviously, before hesitating to nod at Phantom and follow the younger child as he ran. "Cam, stay with us." She instructed as Cameo attempted to follow her elder 'siblings'. At once, the grape-girl huffed in mock upset but stuck close to her mother. "Thank you." Asha clutched to Phantom's shirt as they drew closer to Wolfey (not that they knew that was his name) and the child he had with him, buring half of his face in her chest.

"Oh!" Phantom stumbled back slightly as the small boy ran into her leg. Quickly, however, she regained her composure and bent down to the infant's level. Balancing Asha on her leg (and keeping one hand at his back), Phantom cautiously reached out a hand to Ani. "Hey there, you alright?" Nevenn bent down next to Phantom as well, Jaque in hand, Cameo and Alex right on her tail. "Are you hurt?" Frowning slightly, she looked up at the apparent father of the child. "Is he yours? I'm sorry 'bout that, I didn't even see him there."

Phantom chuckled lightly, smiling at Ani kind heartidly. "Really? Your first word? How special!" She stood, smiling still. "No, no, I'm fine, really. Wolfey and Ani is it? Well," Phantom shifted the red haired boy on her hip, "you can just call me Phantom, this is Asha," the looked out at Ani slightly, barely lifting his face off of his mother's chest, but nonetheless smiling warmly, "Nevenn and Jaque," the cat-girl stood, bowing her head slightly, and Jaque waved, "Cameo," the Sin curtsied clumsily, "an' Alex."

"How do you do?" The other woman tipped an imaginary hat to the man.

Phantom smiled. "Julii and Neon are..." she scanned the park shortly, quickly catching a glimpse of sliver and pink hair in the distance, "climbing trees somewhere. They'll show up when they get tired."

"That sounds nice..." Phantom looked back at her crew, and each one nodded (with the exception of Jaque, who babbled nonsensically) in turn. Turning back to Wolfey, Phantom smiled. "As long as we aren't intruding on anything."

Asha lifted his head off of his mother's chest fully now, making half-grabbing half-waving motions at Ani with one hand. His other hand still grip tightly around the fabric of his mother's shirt. "Ngshh, appa!" He garbled, no particular meaning in his baby talk words apparent.

Phantom laughed, following and shifting Asha so that he was fully in both of her arms. "Sometimes, but others I think we'd rather not know." Asha looked up at his mother and then at Ani. Finally releasing his grip on his mother's shirt, he clapped clumsily back, giggling.

Behind them, the others followed. Jaque was still sucking on a binkie and watching these new people indifferently, Cameo humming the jingle to some commercial or another, and the older young women shook their heads at a silent joke between them.

Phantom settled down as well, placing Asha neatly in her lap, laughing. "Ah, it's no problem. We live in a house of cats, so..." She passed a glance at Nevenn, who sat down next to her and rolled her eyes, "...Yeah, we're used to these sorts of things." Sort of, anyways. Cats and wolves were on different ends of the spectrum, but they were both animals...right? "Does any one want anything?" Nevenn and Alex shook their heads (mumbling a "no thanks" each) and Jaque just blinked, apparently content.

Cameo giggled and twisted her body slightly to watch Ani as he crawled around her. "He's a nice baby." She concluded, nodding her head and laughing, then looked up at Wolfey. "Grape juice please!"

In Phantom's lap, Asha squirmed. "Gwape." He stated simply, then squirmed again. "Ananananani, nana." He reached out for Ani with his tiny hands, restrained only by his mother's gentle hands.

Phantom rolled her eyes at her 'children', smiling. "I'm fine too, but thanks."

"Mmhmm, tank you, sir!" Cameo accepted the juice box and sipped a little, settling on the grass next to her mother.

Phantom nodded to Wolfey as she took Asha's juice box from his hand and gave it to the little red headed boy. Laughing, she brushed a loose lock of hair out of her eyes. "Ah, yes, it does seem like that, doesn' it?" She allowed Asha to slip off of her lap onto the ground and pat Ani on the head softly. The child looked up at her, sipping his grape juice childishly, and scooted closer to Ani, waving.