Andu Kirost:
Night Trouble:

=== Southern Glen: 2014-12-21 01:00 ===

::Andu carefully lays Icer on the bed in her stall, and holds a hand outt o Lalen for the sparkly.::

"And what are these videos exactly, Andu?" Oh, she is thinking about what she could possibly want. It's likely she won't give him an answer from a lack of knowing. And yes, the asteroid sapphire is given to Andu.

::Andu carefully rests Icer's head back on the sapphire, the grabs a blanket to toss over her and tucks her in. Then he turns to Lalen.:: They are videos of people pulling pranks on others, pranks that benefit the person they are pulled on in material and emotional ways.

Head tilt as Lalen grows to Andu size and seems to sprout a dress right from her skin. "That sounds very weird. I don't get it."

::Andu grins wryly and nods.:: That's why you should watch the videos. Then you would "Get it".

Lalen is looking 100% confused right now based on her look. "Um... okay?" A single twiggy arm wraps around his.

::Andu chuckles softly.:: Come, let's go home to Gaia, and you can watch some of those videos before bed. ::Assuming she doesn't get addicted to them.::

Oh, she'll probably pull the all-nighter and watch the full library. "I don't really wanna go home right now, though. Can we just take a walk? The glen is really pretty right now." She must want to spend more time with him or something.

Okay. We can do that. ::And Andu leads the way to the other entrance, the one out into the glen as opposed to back to the Inn.

Now that'll elicite a big smile from the impy wifey before steals a peck on the cheek. They'll head out the front gates, naturally enough, and holy cats is it cold!

::Andu smiles at the peck, and at Lalen's reaction to the cold. Seems maybe he's prepared?:: You cold or something, Lalen?

Of course no.... Oh wait. Okay. Here's another chance to be romantic. So, Lalen will bite her bottom lip and look at the minotaur with a gaze that says "Eeyup."

::Andu chuckles, and gives her a disbelieving look. But opens his duster so she can snuggle under it in the warmth of his body heat.::

It worked! She'll snuggle into that duster as they walk along. "Thaaaaanks, dearrrrr."

You are welcome, Dolly. ::Andu smiles and lumbers along, watching the glen around them.::

He moves like an ent. It could be worse, though. "See? It's very pretty tonight, isn't it? Oh! Stop! Look up!" At the sky, naturally enough.

::Well, Andu "is" almost as big as an Ent. HE does stop and look up when she says to.::

"You see anything different up there?" She's bouncing excitedly on her feet.

Urhmm.. Sorry, Lalen, I am sure there is something, but there are far too many stars up there for my mortal brain, which hasn't made a study of them, to pick out anything with out a clue or three.

Giggle and she'll twirl like a beautiful ballerina out of the duster. "Okay. One clue. Ummm..." Neither of the two of us are great with riddles so this might take a moment...

Aha! "Whisps of red, core of blue, a factory of rainbows, made for you. It birthes anew while death continues the celestial bodies, the great multitude. What am I?"

I know enough astronomy to know that sounds like a nebula, but these weak mortal eyes of mine have a hard time seing those.

"Very good!" Bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce so she's behind him. Then she'll point in the exact right direction. Lo and behold, there is a very faint red cloud hovering in the star-filled darkness. "See it now?"

Yeah, I do. That your handy work, Lalen?

She grins broadly and wraps both arms around his neck. "Well... to be more precise? That is actually our handiwork."

You mean you and your fellow Imps?

Giggle. "No. Our." She'll motion a finger between the two of them. "Half of that is yours. Andu, may I introduce you to your heir. I'm calling it the Bullhead Nebula. And in a few billion years or so, it's going to spawn a star which will spawn a system in which there will be a planet that will hold a race of bovines with more than a touch of shadowporting and chaos capability."

::Andu blinks at Lalen, several times. Trying to wrap his brain around her words.::

"Not what you were expecting, was it?" She's watching him for some sort of a response now.

You mean a race of Minotaur like folk? Like me?

She'll noddle and beam brightly. "Mhm! Your influence."

Huh. And will they get anything from me, from my own ancestry besides their looks?

She shrugs. "I do not know that part. Culture is something falling completely out of my control. Races develop their own beliefs, their own heritage."

::Andu shakes his head.:: That isn't what I am talking about. I mean will they have my natural ability to change their shapes? Or will they inherit any of the Gifts, the mystical abilities of my ancestors?

"Shapeshifting? Probably. As for your Gifts, I don't know."

::Andu nods and smiles, genuinly touched, and happy with the thought of that race. A race his heart is already taking in as his descendents. In spirit, if not in physcial reality.:: That is good enough. I don't have any of those gifts myself, and if they turn out to be the only intelligent race on that planet, they might be limited by them.

She can feel his joy, that is for certain. The imp will hug her giant hubby from behind and rest her chin on his shoulder. "I would imagine you originally expected an actual child, some freak of nature with bits and pieces of both of us, right?"

Not really. I believe your heart too good to allow that. I did expect something that would look like me, but be more you in personality and abilities. ::Andu smiles.:: But.... ::Chuckles in wry good humour.:: How many others can say they are the father to an entire race?

"Indeed. How many others?" She'll grin happily and rub at his chest lovingly. "I'm glad I could make you happy in this way, though."

I thank you, Dolly. Though I may have request, if you can do it, in the future. ::And smiles, a slightly wishful smile on his face.::

"Anything, Daddy Andu."

::Chuckles and smiles at being called, Daddy.:: I am merely mortal, and so sooner or later, I will die. Some day it is likely this entire planet will die, long before that race rises. As an immortal, would you see about transporting Gaia to them? To act as a sort of an advisor or mentor when they've evolved enough? Neither her nor I would want her to be taken as a god, but rather just as a friend, advisor or mentor.

"Hrm." She'll rest her head on his shoulder again. "Yes. I will do that. Though, honestly, if I had my way, you wouldn't die. You would join the Spaces Between and stay with me in blissful chaos for time beyond eternity."

::Andu smiles in a bit of melancholy.:: I've been offered imortality before, Lalen. I don't know if I could handle living that long. Accumilating that many memories.

"It changes when you join the host. Plus, chaos... it's never boring or difficult."

I will think about it, but there is also something else you must think about..... ::Andu is hesitent to say this, but he knows it is time, and is struggling to find the right words.::

"What is that?"

Before I met you, I swore my soul in service, and worship, to another. To Kami Shori no Haha, known mortally as Lene Spiritor.

"Ammy's daughter," she says, reinforcing the image in her mind.

Yes. ::Andu nods, and smiles a bit wryly.:: And a sort of adopted grand-daughter, through Ammy, of myself as well. And since I was the first to swear to her when she claimed her Godhood, She has, apparently, named me her 2nd in command.

"Uh huh."

You have my heart, and a bit of my soul by that means. But she also has a bit, given to her when I swore myself to her. I have no idea how this would effect your proposal, but I can not break my word once it is given honorably. And I do still care for her, as a grand-daughter.

::eeps, edit... Not grand daughter... niece. yeesh.::

"Okay?"

I just thought you should know. ::Shrugs.::

"I'm sorry, but I fail to see what issue there is. As a being of chaos, you can literally do anything you want. This includes claiming allegience to whomsoever."

Huh, I didn't know that. I will have to see how that would sit with her, then. But that is for the future. ::Smiles.:: And right now I am feeling it is time for bed.

"Mm, I do like the sound of that." She'll twirl around him again before leaping toward him. Catch me!

::Andu chuckles, not softly at all, and does just that. Catching her, and then spinning her like one might a little child.::

"Whee!" The ensuing cackle will echo through the empty glen as a portal opens behind them.

::And Andu will catch sight of that opening portal, and still swinging her, he would step through it, and into "their" home.::

That laughter will continue, to be sure..."