Heirot

OOC: posting for the sake of it!

Mizuki groaned in her sleep as Blade cooed in her face. she was fully aware of the little boy that was now starting to experiment with her face by pulling her cheeks.

"Ow! Blaf stop!" Mizuki muttered from pulled cheeks. Blade giggled then layed his head on her chest. Mizuki sighed and sat up with him in her arms. Like a robot she fed him listening to the noise outside with a grin on her face.

Rai yawned, sitting up slowly and rubbing her eyes as she did so. She yawned again, feeling as if she hadn't slept at all. Rai's hair was a tangled mass on her head, making her look all the more adorable.

"Mizuki..." Rai said tiredly. "Is it time to get up?"

"They're still out," Soran commented to the dark angel as the horses regained an interest in the food he was holding and dug their noses into the bag.

Billiam surveyed the border So many horses so little time I must get back into Arken Last night Billiam had grown weary of working in Ighten not nearly enough horses tom eat

Mizuki shrugged and looked out to the tent walls. She studied who light they looked and figured the sun was probably up. "Yes," she replied softly. "Brush your hair and teeth, ok sweetie?"

Blade moved away from Mizuki's breast and burped. Mizuki smiled and patted his back then adjusted her top. Since she didn't toss and turn in the night, her hair wasn't a mess. All she did was run her fingers through her hair quickly and smooth out Blade's. She cleaned her teeth, then Blade's gums. As she cleaned his gums, Mizuki felt bumps in them.

"Oh Blade," she said taking her finger out of his mouth then wiping it on her bedroll, "I believe you're growing some teeth!" Blade giggled, drool now falling down his chin and Mizuki chuckled.

Rai got a bush and began to trie and brush the tangles out of her curly hair... but then something horrible happened! The brush got stuck in her hair and she couldn't get it to come out. She had managed to get hair rapped all around the brush, since she had never been that good at brushing her own hair.

"Mizuki..." Rai said softly, crawling over to her with the brush hanging in her curles. "Erm... I have a problem..."

Mizuki looked up and laughed softly. "Aw, alright I'll untangle you." Mizuki tried to work Rai's hair free of the brush. She tried to do it gently but sometimes it was hard not to hurt Rai by accident. Everytime she did, she flinched and said she was sorry. "I think maybe, we should braid your hair everynight before bed." Mizuki suggested, "then it wouldn't be so tangled."

Blade watched them both before getting bored and crawling out of the tent to find Soran. Mizuki took note of his absence but Blade's squeal of "Sowan!" made her not get up after him. Blade was currently waddling as fast as he could to Soran, whom he had dubbed his father.

Rai said "Ouch!" every time it hurt, but she knew Mizuki wasn't doing it on perpose. (has gotten to lazy for a spell check) She nodded to Mizuki when she mention braiding her hair before she went to sleep. "Mommy used to do that!" Rai said, not feeling very sad... since she didn't want to be sad anymore. Her mommy and daddy were some place happy.

Mizuki nodded approvingly. She wanted to add something else but was afraid of making Rai sad. Mizuki hadn't been there when Rai's aprents were murdered before the child's eyes. But she could guess at what had taken place. She almost wished she hadn't be in labor when Soran went to rescue Rai... Mizuki couldn't been there to hold her when she cried.

Feeling that she was making herself depressed, Mizuki shot herself away from those thoughts and grinned at Rai.

"Well, you're free now, shall we go and say goodmorning to Soran?" she said with a mischeivous grin. Saying "goodmorning" meant "pouncing on the rouge until he cries 'mercy!'"

Soran eyed the tent skeptically as a chorus of 'ow!'s and apologies floated out of it, guessing that Mizuki and Rai had awoke. The horses had eaten all the feed he had and were now muzzling about at the scraps on the ground contentedly while the rogue leaned against the tree with his arms crossed.

A giddy cry of "Sowwan!" turned his attention back to where Blade was waddling to him with a big grin. The child reached him in no time, grabbing onto his leg victoriously and reaching up at him. The rogue glanced at the child thoughtfully, bent down and picked him up under the shoulders, holding Blade in front of him. "Why does he always come to me?" he muttered to Siren, though when Blade's eyes met his, they had the same spellbinding effect on him as always.

"Sheer animal magnatism" Siren joked. "I don't know, maybe he thinks you're pretty." Siren smirked, giving the handsome elf an apprasing look.

"But hey, it could be worse, he could be running off into the woods!" She paused, looking over at the tent innocently. "At least he aleady knows where to run to till he's big enough to learn defense, right?"

Soran narrowed his eyes, but had no protest to Siren's logic. He hoisted Blade to rest curled in his arm and yawned, leaning back into the tree with one foot propped back against it.

"Hey, time to mount up," he called to the tent.

"Yea!" Rai said and giggled as she pratically dove out of the tent with her arms forward, her nice combed hair flying behind her. "Good morning Soran!" Rai said, running and hugging the rouge's leg in a vice like grip.

She then almost tackled Siren with a hug. "Good morning Siren!"

"Woah!" Siren said, spinning a little with Rai to keep her balance.

"Good morning to you too!" She had to fight to resist the urge she was feeling to mess up Rai's hair.

"We're going without breakfast?" Siren pouted to Soran, though only half serious.

Soran unwound a saddle bag and removed a round roll of wheat bread. "Here. Breakfast," he said callously, throwing the bread to her.