Welcome to Gaia! ::

((*squeeee* Oh!!! She's beautiful!! *luvs on her & laughs* if I could have made it two minutes longer last night.... 4laugh

Relm Audio: *stunned* oh! She hatched! *is in wonder, the first Relm in the 'family' to start out as a baby*
Relm Blath: *looks about sleepily, but with curiosity in bright, intelligent eyes*
Interceptor Sprite: *flutters around protectively*))

((Relm Audio: I wonder what Keme will say... *still in shock*
Interceptor Sprite: *settles onto her charge's beret glaring balefully at anyone who might approach with ill intentions
Interceptor FTD: *sniffs at the small Relm*
Relm Blath: *beams* Doggy! *throws her small arms around the huge dog as best she can*
*whuffs and wags tail happily*
Relm FTC: *laughs* I think we have a winner.
She's so innocent.... O_O
Sure is. Kinda weird, isn't it?))

A purple and tan blathanna with gray sock bands that looked to be splattered with dried blood gave a relieved sigh at the cool weather as she padded in the direction she had once met others of her kind. Two sprites fluttered above her, their personalities different as night and day. Wait... two? Ah... there was the reason. A young anthro-blath rode half hidden between the adults wings except when her curious face peeked around the feathers to see where they were going. Or when a hand reached up to 'pet' the black & brown sprite that hovered more around her than the others. "We adventure?" Young Relm asked her guardian with eagerness. "Da, ребенок. You could say that." The little one giggled and made a face at the back of her 'ride's' head. "Aw... you're calling me things in Russian again, Maltavish!" Relm fake pouted. She did not like not knowing things.

Maltavish laughed, a hearty throaty sound. "Da, Relm ребенок. I am more comfortable doing so, nyet?" The baby continued to pout even as her ears flicked thinking she heard something trailing upon the ground along with footfalls. The adult missed Relm's ear twitches, her own burgundy tipped ears turning towards the sounds. Well, no reason to be shy -meeting others of their kind was why they were out. Why the Relm Audio Rhetoric had agreed to let the young Relm blath out with Maltavish to begin with. Her deep tan muzzle curled at the ends of her maw in a grin. It was nice seeing the baby so well cared for & protected. She really was a sweet thing, though quite precocious. She padded towards the sounds, surprised to see a full grown anthro male -the first she had seen. But then little Relm was the first anthro she had seen so that really should not be surprising. But what had the male so despondent looking in his bearing? "Dosvidanya, Tovarish."

Relm stirred, giving up her pouting now that her 'guardian' was no longer paying attention to it for certain. Sitting up she peered over the adult's head, leaning against her neck and head, green eyes blinking between the other's ears. Spotting the anthro her head tilted in recognition and a smile spread warmly across her face, lighting her eyes. "oh!! 'llo again!"

"Charming scamp..." Maltavish chuckled at being called a 'stunning adult' while her sprite buzzed happily with approval. Tova did not like much, but speaking well of her blath charge was one. The young anthro beamed with happiness. She had not known if her 'savior' had caught her name or not. They certainly had not been introduced. "Yes!! Relm! You have it right!" It seemed today -now- Relm was all childish sweetness. "This is Maltavish and her guardian Tova. My guardian is Interceptor." The child paused, the barest flicker of confusion showing briefly in her intelligent green eyes as if some stray thought brushed her mind. Malta took that pause to dip her head politely in greeting. "A pleasure to meet you, Tovarish. And what might your name be?" Relm gave an 'o' of surprise then laughed. "Oh! Forgot! He's Aluster." Then she smiled cutely up at the anthro male. "I'm right, aren't I?"

Her joy at being right flickered briefly at the information that followed Aluster's confirmation. Awww... He'd taken all the fun out of bantering the information out of him. And now set her in an interesting situation: how to get out of this without giving anything away that she did not want to share. Not that all of it was very clear. She paused, eyes flicking to the sprites and glinting. "I live with lots and lots and lots of others. It's fun... huh? Your mother's human? but... how is that possible?" Clearly the psychic did not bother her, but trying to imagine a human with a blath.... Well an adult anthro blath was only 1/4 the size of human...

Green eyes lit up with understanding. "That makes sense!!" Indeed, the Russian blathanna Relm rode was nodding her comprehension as well. The precocious tot giggled as the male tripped, intelligent eyes dancing. "You always so graceful?" She asked teasingly. "Relm ребенок! That is not courteous to say." Relm pouted, then looked entreatingly at Aluster. "Aww... Aluster knows I'm jsut kidding. Don't you Aluster?"

Relm's smile crinkled to a frown to be called 'young one' but she quickly pushed it aside. Vampire. Right. He had said that before but she had become distracted with the whole 'human mother' thing. Tova seemed to be nervous at the talk of vampires, but then they silly sprite was a very superstitious thing and did not like such things. For her part, Maltavish was less squeamish about the notion. The small pictomancer did not seem phased in the slightest. She had powers too. "Your powers? What kind of powers?" Relm wondered if he would ask any questions about her. Or Maltavish too, but really her. Silly as it might be, Aluster had 'saved' her once and she liked him for it. Climbing down from Malta's back -ignoring the Russian blath's quiet protests in her native tongue- Relm skipped over to the Vampire anthro and gave his lower half a hug. Then she put her small hands to the spot he had been rubbing and with a wink cast her spell. "Cure"

Now... would her white mage magic heal a vampire? Why not?

Her ears flicked. Was she not as good at the quick concealment of emotions as her 'sisters' that she could be read so easily? But she smiled and hugged Aluster while he was kneeling down to her level. Then it all made sense as he told her his powers. They understood psychic powers. And accidental reading of thoughts. Relm was content believing that Aluster had somehow read her mind on that score. It was better than thinking she had failed as an actress. She had a standard to live up to! What would her 'sisters' think if she couldn't pull off a believable act whenever she wanted?

Wait... he actually told her his powers? What kind of strategy was that? No tactics... Was he really.. that trusting? Of her? The young blath felt a warm fuzzy feeling inside her and smiled honestly up at the anthro male. "you welcome..." She said, becoming a little shy suddenly. "An' I think... I think those're pretty neat." Behind her, watching the young pictomancer warily Maltavish shifted uneasily. Vampire and telepathic? Or whatever his psychic abilities happened to be. It was one thing to live with Talents -even Trelweny's erratic latent Talent- another to have it in a relative stranger. Tova buzzed near Malta's ear fretting fearfully & the blathanna flicked her ears. The Russian tried to calm herself Не будьте настолько опрометчиво для того чтобы судить, Maltavish. Его действиями до тех пор был ничего но видом. Специально к молодому Relm.

"So... do you see him sometimes? A little?" Still on a shy mode Relm quirked a sweet smile, touched by a hint of sadness.

Relm's eyes showed more of her inner sadness and Interceptor landed on her beret trying to cheer her up with what sounded like a small bark. Where she had stopped Maltavish lay down on her belly, a soft look in her eyes as she watched the small anthro, deciding this was better for Relm to socialize this time than herself. Besides... Tova would likely flip if she went much closer to the vampire blath. Silly sprite. it did not register that the look Aluster gave her was because he had heard her thoughts and not been able to translate from the Russian. "My father 'before'... he abandoned Mom & me. She died while I was still a baby & Strago took me in..." Relm's eyes clouded as that memory from a life she could only recall snipits from also faded. Then she smiled brightly, only partly an act. There was joy in her 'new' life to bolster it, and Relm could always find something. "But as a blath I don't have a mother or father but I've a huge family!! There's grown-up 'me's of other species, an' lots o' kitsu, Trel & her boy, the gaiacom, I think there's hundreds of us! An' Malta too 'course." The little anthro grinned cutely up at Aluster, holding her arms out in a 'pick me up or come back down to my level' gesture.

Her triumphant grin was barely held in check as she was lifted up & Relm -in full 'I'm adorable, gotta love me' mode wrapped her small arms around her friend in a sweet hug. Until her father was called a coward and Interceptor growled angrily, startling the young anthro so that her green eyes went wide. "But 'Ceptor...!" Relm snuggled into Aluster's arms, ducking her head as she eyed her sprite-guardian. Why was her companion so upset? She frowned, trying to remember. "Shadow trained Interceptor..." The sprite barked and Relm's small body shuddered with memory. Shock. "He's my Daddy?" Another bark. Relm sank against Aluster. Was that what the other Relms had been implying? It stunned her so much she could not even manage a thank you to her friend, though it seemed his beautiful compliment and talk about always being there had sunk in by the way Relm clung to him in complete trust.

Malta watched all this with gentle eyes. "Da, young Aluster. I think a walk is perfect." With a swift ease she stood, padding to his side -ignoring soft protests from her sprite- and nudged the anthro's legs in an indication that they could walk while he and her charming charge continued their conversation.

Still in the thrall of knowing who her daddy was and trying to figure out why he left... Relm hmmm softly into his chest at the suggestion. She kind of liked the one they were on. Even if it had led to her mind melting. But what else could be expected, with Interceptor getting her to know that Shadow was her father!

"Um... do you like Art, Al'ster?" The question was soft, almost tentative. Maltavish looked up in surprise to see if it was an act and almost paled beneath her fur realizing it was not. Was growing as a child, not as certain of her past as the others to be this much of a difference for her? Time would tell.

Relm bit her lip, looking cute and shy. "mmm... a bit..." Walking beside them Maltavish broke into hearty laughter. "Relm ребенок, you tease him! You are чудесно artist! Much more than very good!" The little anthro child reddened. "Malta!!! You're no fun!!" But the Russian blath only continued to laugh at the young one's chastising. "Ask her to paint something for you, Tovarish. You will not be disappointed, da?"

Both females stopped stunned at the notion, but it was Relm this time who laughed -throwing her head back and then pressing her face into Aluster's chest as the laughter brought tears to her eyes. Maltavish blinked, not comprehending. "Tovarish, I have made error, da? Relm is the оригинал. The Artist. оригинал. A Master. But you wish to see?" Reaching a paw out Malta scratched a crude outline of a blathanna upon the dirt. It looked like a lump, with a smaller lump on one side four lines for legs and a blurb at the other for a tail. Relm paused her laughter enough to look, then started snickering. "See? The extent of art in me." Still snickering Relm wiped her tears of mirth upon Aluster's fur. "Anywhere... just anywhere!"