Room 218, Sunday Morning

[glacial_queen]

Karla had spent most of yesterday in her room, hibernating with a vicious headache. She would wake up long enough to drink some more tea and then go back to sleep. At some point in the evening, she'd noticed that the tea she was drinking was still warm--Gabrielle must have come in and set something up for her. She'd have to thank the girl later for her kindness.

Unfortunately, it had been impossible for her to tell the pounding on her door from the pounding in her head, so she hadn't realized that she'd had any visitors, never mind any visitors of an unusual nature.

The first thing Karla realized when she woke up was that her headache was gone, thank the Darkness. The second thing she realized what that she wasn't alone in her bed--there was someone cuddled up against her, an arm slung over her ribs. The third thing she realized that whoever was in bed with her was awfully small.

She flailed a bit, trying to disentangle herself from whoever was in bed with her, trying to remember anything that could explain...this.

The sleeping moppet behind her opened up one blue eye and grumbled, "Dun wanna wake up yet, Mommy. I'm sleepy."

Hell's fire, Mother Night, and may the Darkness be merciful.

[Open for wee kidlets and friends alike.]

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[momslilassassin]

"I see that," Ben said. "So Karla--" he couldn't bring himself to refer to her as Mommy, "is sick. What do I do?"

[skycrawlers.livejournal.com]

"Fly around and go whoosh!" Jaenelle answered immediately. "An' spar wit' Unca Lucivar an' Mommy says you like to show off but you say you'se jus' fightin'. Oh! An' you give me piggy-back rides and sometimes we go to outer space to see Granddaddy and Great-grandpapa, and Auntie Jaina!"

...Not particularly helpful no.

"An' sometimes you an' Mommy kiss a lot an' Unca Morton makes throw up noises."

Not just unhelpful, but downright embarrassing. Thank you, Jaenelle.

[momslilassassin]

Ben was now trying to blush hard enough to match his hair. "That was very...comprehensive."

[glacial_queen]

Karla was face-palming, very glad she wasn't holding Jaenelle so she had free hands to do so. "That's one word for it," she mumbled.

[momslilassassin]

"So did you follow a portal too?" he asked, trying to shift onto more stable ground.

[skycrawlers.livejournal.com]

The look Karla shot him then was one of pure gratitude.

"I did!" Jaenelle said, looking both proud and a bit apprehensive. "It was by the stables. I wanted to see what it was. It looked in'erestin'!"

[momslilassassin]

"Did you see any unicorns?" Ben replied.

[skycrawlers.livejournal.com]

"Not in our stables," Jaenelle said, giggling. "They live in Shovel!"

"Sceval," Karla corrected automatically. But with a smile. "They live in Sceval."

"S'what I said," Jaenelle stated. "They live in Shovel!"

[momslilassassin]

Ben snickered. "Close enough."

[glacial_queen]

Karla leaned over to poke him. "So you say until she starts messing up names of your flying ships," she teased.

[momslilassassin]

"Starfighters," Ben said, proving her point.

[glacial_queen]

"Close enough," Karla said, grinning.