Elena joins everyone at the table, pulling a chair for Kama. "Ah, it smells wonderful, Auntie Priya."
Priya smiles and serves everyone their meal. Asha goes and gets some tankards. "What does everyone want to drink?"
"I'll have water, please," Juhi answers.
"I'll have tea."
A little lost in thought she almost didn't hear her mother. Kjell said that ring was capable of a wish, and she had a pretty good idea how she wanted to use the wish...but she needed to talk to Dillon first and then probably Tesia and Sadhana. This was not something she could do on her own, but she couldn't think of a better baby shower gift for the normally bubbly Aasimar. When she went to tell Arista what her brother had said she was scared. She didn't know how she was gonna react, maybe get mad and yell at her, accuse her of lying....but nothing had prepared Rajni for her actual reaction, heart breaking sorrow and grief. When she watched Arista crumble to the ground it felt as if a little of her own heart was breaking for her. Sure...the overly protective Aasimar could be a giant pain in the ass...but so could she. Arista deserved to be happy...she deserved to have her family back and if Rajni could grant her even one of her loved ones return...that's exactly what she would do...with a little help of course.
Shaking her head she looks up at her mother, "Huh? Oh...oh yeah. Could I have a lemonade please?"
Picking up Celine, he walked over to the bathroom and started filling it with water. Michael's inventions certainly had merit. Setting his Little Wisp down, the Elf looked at the braces and figured out how to remove them. After that, he started taking off Celine's clothing, "Alright my Little Wisp, time for a bath."
After checking the water to make sure it wasn't too hot, he set her in the tub and reached for the soap.
"My, there's an awful lot of tension here," Drago noted.
She just sits in the tub quietly, her eyes nearly closed she sways slightly. Moving to the back of the tub she kind of lays in the water with her head propped up on one of her hands in the corner as she puts the thumb of her other hand into her mouth and closes her eyes.
Yulia yawns. "Not a lot of opportunities to sit down at the cafe, love."
After he finished bathing her, Alethiro toweled her off and brought her to the bedroom. Slipping some clean clothes on her, the Elf put his little girl to bed and bundled her up nice and warm. Sitting on the edge of the bed, he managed to get one boot off before passing out.
She doesn't even put up a fight in or out of the tub. Once daddy is asleep on the bed she wakes up enough to use the covers to pull herself up on the bed and goes to lay beside him, curling up into his side. With one hand on his chest, and the other being occupied while she sucks her thumb she falls into a deep restful sleep.
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"How about you, Kama?" Asha asks.
"Tea please" Kama replies breathing in the fragrant scent of dinner.
Asha puts a kettle on and serves everyone else's drinks. After the kettle whistles, she pours a cup of tea for Kama and Elena.
Elena takes a few bites of food. "How are you liking our home so far, Juhi?"
"It's very nice...it reminds me a little bit of Deshur. The good parts," Juhi answers.
Sādhanā shifts slightly in the driver's seat allowing Arista to lie down somewhat, resting her head in the Anizari's lap as she sleeps, smiling as she looks down at her, then back at Pandi dozing in the back.
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As Sadhana shifts so that her head falls in her lap she stirs slightly while bringing up a hand to put under her cheek and repositions herself slightly so she's not scrunched up on the seat before settling into a more peaceful sleep and resuming her soft snoring.
Sādhanā sees Valwick in the distance, about another half hour away.
Smiling at the sight of their home, the magus continues on, steering the cart towards the ever growing town.
She sits there for a bit as she eats and drinks some of her lemonade before looking up, "I kinda always wondered what other places were like. Before coming here, I never really left the shadow plane and since coming here I haven't really explored too much outside of the town except for hunting purposes. I keep hearing people talk about all these different places and think maybe some day I'll go and see them.....but, I'd probably miss everyone here too much so I guess I'll just stay here." She says before forking more of the delicious meal into her mouth.
Finally making it back to their home she goes inside, unsure of whether or not Rhy actually made it back from her errands yet she goes to the kitchen to pour herself a glass of the wine they had bought earlier. She needed to calm her nerves a bit after everything that happened earlier. Pouring herself about half a glass she goes back to the table and sits down heavily in a chair before sipping on it slowly.
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Having finished running errands and getting a fresh assortment of late fall flower which she put in a vase in the living room, Rhadaya hears the door. As she walks out of the bedroom, she can feel by the shift in the flow of air in the house that Tes is home. Walking up to her quietly, the sorceress smiles, knowing that with her wife's almost supernaturally acute senses, she already knows that she's there before her slender fingers settle onto her loves tense shoulders and begin to massage them. "Welcome home honey. How'd it go?"
She sighs as she feels Rhy's hands on her shoulders and kind of shrugs, "She and Celine are alright...Sadhana and Pandi are with her now. I brought Alethiro and Celine home so he could take care of her, and somehow I restrained myself from beating her ass for pulling such a dangerous stunt. I swear...I don't know what she's thinking half the time." She takes another sip of her wine, "With everything that happened earlier though, I didn't really feel like I had a right to punish her for acting impulsive and reckless...when I did something similar..even if it was for different reasons. I don't know....it makes me worried about what she might do when we go out again to face Jarrah or one of the many other problems we're having. She's almost two months along now and I think it would be better if she just stayed at home now...but I don't feel like I have the right to say anything. Sadhana and them...they've known her a lot longer than I have so I thought I'd just let them deal with her. Besides...I don't want to make her feel more frustrated and stuff than she already does. Who knows what she would do." Giving her wife's hand a kiss she says, "I'm sorry love...I don't mean to go off this way, it's just...her behavior lately kinda scares me and I'm afraid of her getting carried away and something happening to her, her baby, or both of them. No one else seems that concerned though...so I don't know what to feel or think anymore. Originally I was sent here to protect her....but now there's you and it's us instead of me....and how can I protect someone that behaves so irrationally?" She takes a couple more sips and sets the glass down as she turns to wrap her arms around her wife and pulls her down into her lap. Holding Rhy against her she kisses her forehead, "I love you honey....I'm sorry I didn't say that first."
"We could always have a family vacation one day," Elena suggests. "All of us and Dillon."
She smiles as she thinks about it, "Yeah...I think I'd really like that. Then we could go to different places...I don't know. I've just never really been good at staying too still for too long. Know what I mean?" She asks before shoveling more food into her.
Elena nods. "It's nice to get away once in a while."
She nods thoughtfully, "If I'm gonna settle down with someone eventually though...this isn't a bad place to do it. I love having my family around me now and couldn't imagine living anywhere else. It would be nice to see where my family came from though...maybe go to some strange exotic lands? As long as we always have a home and our family to come back to though. Sorry....the food is really good, it must be making me talk a lot." She says with a giggle as she drinks some of her lemonade.
Elena chuckles. "It's fine, Rajni."
Charity comes out of her room as Tesia and Rhadaya are talking. "I had some time to think about it and I should be at the execution. Konstantyná said that it's closure that I need."
She nods, "Yeah....I can understand that. I think it would be a good idea for me to go as well, if nothing else to put my mind at ease that he's unable to hurt anyone else ever again." She gives Rhy a kiss on her cheek as she holds her in her lap, "What about you love? Would you want to come with us?"
As Tes reaches up and pulls her into her lap, Rhadaya makes a little happy noise, sighing contently. ”I know you do baby….though I never get tired of hearing it.”
As Charity exits her room and relay’s her decision, the sorceress nods quietly. ”I’ll come too. Knowing one less monster lurks tonight would be a good thing.”
"Whenever you're ready to go," Charity says, getting a glass of water from the kitchen.
Gerard straightens his shirt. "Are you sure you still want to go to this, Amélie?"
Arista, Sadhana and Pandi finally arrive back in town as a large group of people head toward the north end of town.
"What's going on?" Pandi murmurs from the back.
"Are you sure you don't want to go?" Celia asks Ylrhea.
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"Nah, I see enough death without having to watch an execution at home," Ylrhea says, pouring Celia a tankard of lemonade. "Shopping, relaxing and spending time with friends and family is what I do here."
She nods, "I guess we could start heading that way, I'm still not feeling very hungry. I'll have a snack when we get back." She says as she helps Rhy up off her lap so she can stand. She puts an arm around her wife as they wait for Charity to finish her water before leaving the house.
Waking up she sits up and sees all the people gathering there in town, "I don't know...but I think we should see what's going on. Sadhana, could you take us in that direction and find out what all the commotion is about?"