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"Call her mother." Nelphean offerd to Tyler. He sat with the two children, he began to sing a quiet song, a happy little tune he made while watching two birds fly.

"We want your help, Nailah...we were afriad that you would not teach us after you left so abruptly..and then you seemed to avoid us. we wanted to show you we were still interested in learning."

His red eyes looked up to her violet ones from thier gaze toward the floor. he couldn't hide the affection that showed in them, but he wanted to see her eyes, look into them rather than the floor.

"We are..grateful to you, Nailah. for things you don't even know you do. and we would be very much..Honored? to have you teach us to read, and to help teach us to write better."

Tyler listened and then nodded. "Miss Niah...is my mommy. My mommy is Miss Niah." He laughed. "I like it. It makes me feel all warm inside." He smiled and said "'Cause you call Miss Ara Mommy, right? And I dont' member Miss Ara being big and puffy." Cara was right. If his mommy really loved him she would have come and gotten him already. After all she had put him in the hole in the ground and she knew exactly where it was. He had been there for days and she had never come.



Niah blushed and hid her face. When she felt the heat leave her cheeks she looked at him. "I dont' know what you mean. I rarely help anybody anymore." She shook her head and moved out of the doorway then motioned him inside. She plopped down on her bed and said "I would never not help you just because you had said something Cymarron. Never." She looked at him for a moment trying to find what she wanted to say "I got a little...nervous. See, I dont' know how I feel right now and it's all so...new." She left it at that then stood and walked over to a corner of her room. The wonderful book corner. She had just about all her favorite books in there. She crouched down and looked through the stack trying to find the simple one she had snatched from the library to teach Tyler to read with.

Saradin nearly wandered into the kitchen, but stopped just beyond the door, looking in at Aurah where she sat over the book. Involuntarily, his hand clenched into a fist and his teeth grit as his eyes tightened shut at the futility of himself, but then he sighed and let that tension go entirely. Saradin had promised to be strong for her, he wasnt going to be so insecure as long as he had her. But the fear... the inability was still there in his shaking hands. Slowly, he backed away from the door and walked into the great hall.

"Silly. That's because I wasn't born like a normal child. Daddy says I am a bond child. I'm special because I'm made from mommy and daddy's souls." She then leaned close as if to tell him a secret. "Sometimes, daddy says I can use both of their bodies and I get bigger. I look like my mommy but with my ear and tail and teeth, and my wings get bigger and I can fly too." She nodded and leaned back, the excited tone in her voice had been clearly there. Then she frowned slightly. "But they won't tell me how to do it."



"That makes....little to no sense, but yet perfect sense at the same time. Damn book." Said book, got tossed off the table and onto the floor where it slid. Said nothing about a change in behavior. "Now I remember why I said books on parenting were crap..." Dropping her head into her hands for a moment she sighed then cracked her neck and stood, making her way to the bar. She poured herself a glass of wine and sipped at it. "How long has it been since I had a drink?"

It seemed liked ages since she had been here. She was so afriad of returned that she hesitated at the gate. She hands shook with fear. Memories of times long past came flooding back to her, filling her head, making her dizy and confused. She stumbled to the gate and pushed it open. She was about to knock on the door.

She stopped, she hadn't seen him in ages. She knew he would be most hurt, if he was around at all. She shivered, though it wasn't that cold outside.

There was no more putting it off any longer. She mustered the courage inside of her. This was the hardest thing she had ever done. She inhaled deeply, and softly exhaled. She brough her fist to the door and gently rapped on it.

More people, he didnt even hear Tyler speaking to him, he only knew that he didnt feel he had the capability to confront right now. He was running now, plain and simple. Just didnt want to see him unable to defend himself. They werent the ones to look to either, he knew where he had to go, and was going to face her. Turning back again, Saradin returned to the kitchen door, standing next to it, not looking in this time. "Damn.." he whispered, frozen in place by indecision once more, he felt like he could keep this up all night, and almost turned away again, but instead remained rooted.

Phea was scared. Was no one home? This wasn't like she remember. SHe gripped the flowers in her hand a little tighter. All she wanted to do was pay her respects to Quain. His resting place was in the courtyard of this manor, thus that was her destination. She really didn't have to saty. She didn't anyone to be awkward around her.

Another deep breath

Again she lifted her hand and knocked, this time a little harder and louder.