She blushes slightly at the compliment, "Thanks...I would have tried making waffles or something...but I didn't want to make you late for work." She says as she gets the plates down and starts dishing up the food, "I have some mugs on the counter if you'd like some coffee, or there's juice in that cold box if you'd rather have that." She says as she sets the plates of meat, eggs, and toast on the table for them. Going to another cupboard she takes down some jam and honey in case anyone wanted some on their toast. Pulling out a seat for Rhy as she comes downstairs she gives her a sweet smile, "What would you like to drink my love? We have coffee, juice...oh...and there's milk...or water." She says as she gets a glass of juice for herself.
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Clara smiles. "When you didn't come back after a while, I figured you could use a quick meal. Do you need a bath or help getting dressed?"
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"A bath sounds like both the absolute best thing in the world, and utterly exhausting." Celia says with a sigh and a rueful smile. "I should be fine though" she says starting to get up and immediately plopping back down on the bed. "....or not. I guess it took more out of me than I thought.....um...I'd really appreciate the help then." she says clearly both grateful and unused to needing help.
"I'll go with milk," Charity says.
Ylrhea gets up and gets dressed.
She nods and gets Charity a cold tankard of milk and sets it at the table next to her plate. Thinking for a moment about what she had seen Rhy drink before she gets her some coffee as well as a glass of juice and sets it at her place, giving her a smile as she puts some sweetner on the table just in case she wants some in her coffee. She couldn't really remember how she took it. Holding the chair out for her love she waits until Rhy is seated and then pushes her in, "I have milk in the cold box in case you want some for your coffee love, I couldn't really remember how you like it....but it's there if you want it. The sweetner is already on the table as is the jam and honey for the toast. Dig in everyone, there's plenty for seconds if you want it." She says taking her seat near Rhy. Looking around the table she felt truly blessed. Offering up a silent prayer of thanks to Erastil she tucks into the hearty meal.
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Clara puts an arm around Celia. "Let's get you cleaned up and then head to the temple."
She helps the Anizari to the bathroom and starts undressing her.
After tucking the perfume bottle into one of his pouches, Alethiro walks into the kitchen with the broom and the dustpan. "It's all cleaned up. Feeling any better?"
She nods slightly, "Yeah...a little. I'm not gonna be able to take a bath until later now though since it's so stinky in there and all of our towels are now all nice and soaking wet. Celine is now in dry clothes and playing in her room where I told her stay until we're ready to go. My robe got pretty wet so I had to take that off too....I was just trying to sit here and relax for a bit while the bottoms of my sleep pants dried. It would be nice if there was at least one thing I didn't have to wash today." She pauses for a moment to try and catch her breath.
Shaking her head a little she just sort of shrugs, "I guess after we get back from Mr. Meacham's shop I'm gonna have to do all this laundry after lunch...I just...I don't know where I'm going to dry all of it with it being so cold outside. If I put wet stuff out there....it'll probably freeze." She sighs again and throws up her hands, "Oh well...isn't there some sort of saying about best laid plans or something? I guess we can't really plan our days with a toddler around eh love?"
Getting up from her seat she goes to him and gives him a kiss on his cheek, "Maybe I should go put some clothes on and let these finish drying before I get sick myself huh? Konstantyna would never let me hear the end of it if I ended up sick." She says with a dry chuckle.
Pulling back from him a little she leaves a hand gently on his cheek as she looks into his eyes, "Thank you love...for all your help this morning. I'm sorry if it's going to make you late to the temple...but I really appreciate it." She then leans forward and gives him a soft gentle kiss on the lips, "I'll see you in a little bit?" She asks with a little smile playing at the corners of her mouth.
"It was no problem, dear," Alethiro says. "I should be back before too long."
He brushes some of his hair back and heads out the door.
She nods and gives him a parting wave before shutting the door behind him. Sighing she goes to check on Celine and make sure she's playing in her room, satisfied that their little girl isn't making anymore messes she goes to their room and puts on one of her newer warm winter wear outfits that she had gotten from Asha. The material was beautiful and thick, yet still soft and gentle on her. Finishing dressing she puts on some thicker socks before pulling her newer boots back on.
She puts all the used towels...which amounted to just about every towel they owned, in the basket in the back of the house near the washroom along with Celine's wet sleepwear and her soaked robe. Going to the chair she hung her sleepwear pants over she checks them and finding them dry and not too horribly stinky she folds them up and puts them with the top in her room on their bed after she makes it.
Going to the living room she lays down on the couch and closes her eyes for a moment. She had never done laundry before. Marie had done it for her before...but she couldn't ask her to do it for her all the time. She would have to go see her and learn how to do these things. She didn't have spells for things like this the way the others did and she didn't believe in using spells for everything anyways. She was a grown woman with a husband and a child and one on the way...so she had better learn these things quickly before the baby came.
Woah....why did that sound like my mother just now? She thinks to herself before shaking the thoughts from her head and trying to relax after an already busy and tiring morning.
Arista hears a knock at the door.
Opening her eyes she gets a curious expression on her face before groaning as she tries to pull herself up off of the couch. Straightening herself up as she walks to the door she stops before opening it, "Who is it?"
"It's Marie," the person answers.
Opening the door she gives her niece a big smile, "Oh I'm so glad that you're here. It's like you were reading my mind. Please, come in." She steps back and motions for her to enter.
"I passed Alethiro outside. He said you might need some help," Marie says, walking inside.
Giving her a grateful smile she nods, "Yeah...we had a bit of a...mess here this morning. Celine had finished eating and I asked her to go get washed up in the bathroom and she took that as meaning, "Please go play in the water and soap in the sink, get it everywhere and oh yes...while you're at it please knock my bottle of perfume off the sink and break it into a billion little pieces causes the whole place to reek"." She says sounding a little frustrated. Shaking her head she kind of shrugs her shoulders while holding out her hands, "I guess it's kind of my fault for not checking on her sooner when I realized how quiet she had gotten...but Ally and I were talking and I wasn't really paying attention. She's still little and gets into stuff so...how upset could I be really? I swept up the glass, got her out of the bathroom....soaking wet by the way, got the window opened and threw down another towel on the floor to try and get some of the water and stuff up, but there was so much and it just...it smelled awful between the soap and the perfume and I just couldn't so I called Alethiro to come help and he finished cleaning it up while I got Celine all dried off and changed and got my own wet stuff off and changed....but now....now I've got all this laundry to do and I have no idea how to do it because it's so cold outside and I don't even know where the wash tub or anything is and have no idea what I'm doing...." She pauses for a moment to take a breath, not even realizing how badly she had needed someone else to talk to about everything that had happened.
Taking a breath she says, "After getting her changed I told Celine to stay in her room and play, then Alethiro left and I....I was laying down on the couch trying to recuperate from all that, and I was gonna come to you later and ask if you would show me how to do the laundry. I'm sorry...there's just so much going on in my head right now. It's been hard for Alethiro to sleep next to me in our regular sized bed with these new wings and everything so after he was done at the temple we were gonna go see the carpenter about a larger bed, and later I was gonna make cookies with Celine since she was so good for Rajni yesterday...but now I've got to clean all these things instead...." She sighs again and rubs her temple, "I don't know how long Alethiro will be at the temple...but do you think you could show me how to start the laundry so when I get to it I don't make a bigger mess than Celine did? I know I should know how to to these things already....but...but I never had to before." She gets quiet then as she kind of plops back down on the couch, the efforts from the morning and the tenderness of her breasts taking a lot out of her.
Marie listens to Arista patiently. "First, let's see if you have a washtub."
She kind of shrugs and gets up from the couch again, "Okay...but since I don't know what it really looks like....I doubt it." She takes Marie out to the back porch where some buckets for feed sit, and a crude rake for cleaning the yard up.
She scratches her head, "Something tells me it's gonna be a looonnnggg day."
Marie sighs. "Yes, it is. Let's go shopping."
Arista sighs too as they go back in the house. Getting back to the living room she calls out to her daughter while getting her heavy winter hooded cloak and the new jacket for Celine.
Celine comes in the living room a little slowly her head tilted down with a pouty expression on her face.
Going to Celine she helps her get her jacket and new boots on before getting her own hooded cloak on. As Celine starts to whine Arista lowers herself to be eye level with Celine as she takes her hand, "Celine...I told you we had to spend today cleaning up because you didn't listen to mommy. We're going to go with Marie to get what we need for the laundry and I don't want to have to repeat myself so I'm saying this once. We are going shopping and then we are coming home to do the laundry and if you throw even one fit, we won't bake cookies at all this week. Understand?"
Looking at mommy's expression and hearing the tone in her voice told Celine all she needed to know. She wipes her face with her sleeve as she looks at mommy and nods, "Y..yes mommy. Okay, I be good girl." Sniffling a little she leans in and puts her arms around her mommy, "Sorry mommy."
Sighing a little and trying to keep her own emotions in check she wraps her arms around the little girl that meant everything to her and gave her a tight hug, "I love you Celine...no matter what. Just know that I love you. Come on, we need to go now." Standing up she sort of takes a minute to readjust things before letting out another little sigh and looking at Marie, "Okay, sorry about that. We're ready to go now." She says as she grabs their bag of holding and going to the door to open it for them.
Marie nods and heads straight for Halfpocket's. "We'll need a large washtub, a smaller washtub, a washboard, some soap and a rack to dry them on."
She nods while keeping a hold of Celine's hand, "Okay Marie, thanks for taking the time to help me."
"Of course," Marie says. "You, Alethiro and Celine are family. More than we've had in a long time. And there's nothing we wouldn't do for our family."
"I know...it's actually kind of funny. I was going to come by and see you today anyways...things just kinda...happened differently though. I'm just...I'm really glad all of you are here." She says as they get to the shop.
"And we're glad to be here," Marie says. "There's been talk floating around of people wanting to go back to Malwen and fix it up. I don't think we'll move back...the kids are getting used to living here and they have friends too. Besides, it's easier to have family gatherings if we're not all living apart."
She listens as they get to the shop. Before going inside she says, "I get why they might want to go back. It's getting really crowded here and there's good farming land out there still. I'm glad that you guys are staying here though....it's good for Celine to have kids near her own age to play with...when she's being a good girl." She says with a loving look down at her daughter, ruffling her hair so Celine knows she's not really angry with her.
She gets quiet for a moment as they enter the shop before looking back at Marie, "It would give some a chance to spread out too and develop more trade and shops. I think it would be good all the way around....I...in some ways, things are still hard for me without mother and father...or Theon....but....in lots of ways I have more now than I ever did then. I try not to think about it too much....but....I still miss them sometimes...but...having you, Lucco, the kids, and Andres...it helps...it's more of a connection than I ever thought I would have to my family again. I just...I wanted you to know how much you all mean to me...you know...in case I forget to say it sometimes. I love you Marie, all of you....very much." She says the last bit a little more softly as they enter the store.
Marie smiles and heads directly to the washing items. Arista sees a dwarf standing at the counter. He turns around and approaches the aasimar. "Ah, it's ye! Ah remember ye from Olther's Pike. Ah be needin' t' talk t' the head o' this town fer Ol' Vargan."
She nods her head and extends her hand, "Oh yes of course, I remember we were going to set up trade between our two towns. I'd love to hear how everything is going...." She stops as she looks down at her daughter and then at Marie looking over the washing things before looking at him, "I have some matters at home that need to be seen to right now though. If you'll give us a moment to purchase our items I'd be happy to show you to Sir Barclay, he's the one you'd need to speak with. Then maybe when your business with him is done you could come by for some lunch? Barclay knows where I live and could show you there and I could get my work done as well. Would that be okay?" She blushes slightly as she forgets about introducing her niece and daughter, "Ahh...forgive my terrible manners. This young lady with me is my daughter Celine, and the young woman helping me pick out what I need to do my washing is my niece Marie." She says as she bends down to carefully pick up Celine, "Celine...this is a friend of mommy's. His name is...." She pauses before laughing a little, "I'm sorry...I don't think I even got your name good Sir before I began jabbering away."
Going up on her toes to give Tes a light kiss on the cheek before sitting down, Rhadaya replies "Usually black with sugar actually." she says with a smile.
"Morning Charity, how are you feeling today."
Celine seems to get a little excited at seeing the man at the counter and squirms in her mommy's arm. Pointing at him she says a bit excitedly, "Посмотри мама, как длинная борода. Это моя дядя мама?" She asks as she reaches out to lightly touch his beard and smile at him before waving.
She smiles and blushes slightly as she sits down herself.
Arista's color darkens significantly as she tries to get Celine to look at her, "Нет, Селин, он не Гарт. Он не ... твоя длинная борода. Он друг, но пусть будет хорошо. Мы не трогаем и не захватываем других людей без их разрешения. Хорошо дорогой? Пожалуйста, отпустите его." Looking at him she says, "I'm so sorry...I think she mistakes you for someone else. It's...complicated really...but she just doesn't know...." She stammers, unsure of what really to say about it.
Celine looks a little sad but lets go of his beard and holds onto her mommy.
Arista just sighs and looks to see how Marie is doing while trying to get her coloring back to normal.
"Farradin, ma'am," the dwarf replies. "My fellers are out n' about, lookin' the town over. It'd be easier if ye'd jes point me in Mr. Barclay's direction. Ah kin handle it from there."
The dwarf simply smiles at Celine. "Think nothin' o' it. Ah'm rather impressed she knows the dwarven tongue. Ye as well. Ah think things'll work out quite nicely."
"It's nice to meet you, Mr. Farradin," Marie says. "You and your friends would be most welcome to eat with us."
"Ah make no promises," Farradin says. "But Ah will take it under consideration."
"I'm good," Charity answers. "Should be another easy day of work."
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Leaning on Clara a bit as she assists her to the bathroom, Celia appreciates the assistance as Clara helps her undress, only minimally embarrassed, more due to being vulnerable that concern about being naked. As an Anizari, being naked around other women was a relatively normal occurrence.
While not as powerfully built as some of the more martially inclined of the Anizari, her fit frame shows signs of a decent degree of physical conditioning, the rich tan of her skin contrasting strongly with the brilliant white markings of an Anizari healer, though her pallor is notably paler then normal, displaying a clear effect of the spectre’s touch.
Letting out a sigh as she settles into the tub, she smiles to herself. ”You have the best ideas…..I really needed this.”
Giving him a smile she says, "Dwarven is all she spoke when I took her in...well...there were some issues so I had to learn it. We've had to deal with....a lot of things and so in order to better communicate I learned what I needed to. I had to learn elven as well...for more personal reasons....anyways, it was a pleasure to meet you Mr. Farradin. You can find Sir Barclay over in the barracks. My niece and I will make sure to make a fine meal in case you and your friends decide to come by. My table is large and friends are always welcome." She explains giving Marie a grateful smile before looking back at Farradin and giving him directions to the Barracks, "If you decide you'd all like to eat with us, Barclay can show you where I live. It would be our honor." Struggling a bit with her load she puts Celine back down and takes her hand to keep her from inspecting their new friend, "Celine...no pulling on mommy. That hurts."
Celine settles down and leans into her leg, wrapping one arm around her leg and putting the thumb of her other hand in her mouth.
The dwarf nods. "Thank ye. Ah'll see what my fellers think as well."
He then turns and heads out of the shop's door.
Turning to Marie after he leaves she says, "If they're not busy and you'd all like to, the rest of the family could come as well. That was kind of my plan for today before...well before everything else happened. I was gonna bake cookies with Celine after seeing the carpenter about a bigger bed, and then come over and see if all of you wanted to come over to eat with us. Ally said his business at the temple shouldn't take that long...I don't know...what do you think? It would make things a little busy...but I can still do the laundry while things are cooking once we get them started." She asks while trying to figure out aloud how to get everything done.
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Clara starts washing Celia's back. "I'm a caregiver...not a great one, but I know a thing or two."
"That's always a good thing" Rhadya says with a smile as she adds sugar to her coffee. "How are you liking it so far?"
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"I think I'll have to disagree with you on the 'not a great one' part." Celia replies as she bathes, flashing the paladin a grin. "How was the rest of your day yesterday?"
Tesia enjoys her food quietly, looking up at Rhy every so often with a soft smile on her lips. The meal was simple, but hearty and delicious.
"If we work on the laundry together, it won't take too long. Even Celine can help," Marie says. "Afterward, I'll talk to Lucco and Andres about coming over for lunch. I'll even help you cook, if you like."
"Let's all get dressed and head over there, okay?" Sienna asks Cyna and Gwen.
Gwen nods and heads to her room to get ready.