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Zulmire nodded at Desiree. He picked up the cake scraps on his plate, then on the three plates beside him, stuffing the lot into his mouth. The shaman was promptly rewarded with an aggressive whack from Arte, which caused him to laugh with his mouth full of cake.
“You be disgustin’!” Arte growled as she whacked him again. “Sorreh, Desireh’. I cannot beh’ excusin’ ‘da disgustingness o’ my mate. You probably experience ‘da same thing with your own… not now, buh’ one day. One day he disgust you…”
“That’s very judgemental of you, Arte.” Kalysto frowned. “Drink more wine….” He picked up a glass to pour himself another. “One for the road… come on, lets go…”
Desiree rolled her eyes at the group. Still, she didn’t comment further. Instead, she moved away to talk to one of the kitchen staff for a moment. After a few short exchanges of words, she arranged for the left-over cake to be delivered to her house within the hour.
Thus, Desiree left to her SUV so that she could drive her husband and the trolls to her home. Once there, she escorted everyone inside.
Zulmire casually wandered through the doorway and into the house. “Eet’s so closed… you’re content to live in a place like ‘dis?” He frowned. “Okey… buh get some fresh air occaisonally.” He shook his head again. “It too closed an’ built fo’ my liking.”
Arte whacked him again. “‘Dat be how ‘dey like it!” She grumbled. “Sheesh…” She gave Desiree a friendly grin. “You best beh’ goin, yah? Hurreh. We take care o’ t’ings here.” She began to push the hybrid off to her bedroom. “We feed an’ drop your kiddies off to place, too.”
“No, Arte, you don’t need to worry about my children. They are with my mother and father at the moment. They’re going to be staying there while we’re away,” Desiree assured as she moved to the bedroom.
Once inside her bedroom, she stripped out of her wedding dress. After stretching, she attempted to hand the dress over to Kalysto.
“I don’t know how to take care of this now. If you know, please do.”
Kalysto nodded as he took the dress from her. “How do you care for it? Easy… same way you care for a suit… you hang that stuff on a coat hanger and… then you put a plastic bag over it…”
He fumbled around the room, following his own instructions. The dry-cleaner’s bag he had gotten for the dress was still in the room, so it was easy to locate and put over the dress. After he had hung it in the closet, he moved over to the bed and lay down, stripping off his suit. “How long until we go…? I need to lie down for just a moment…”
Desiree mumbled in response, “I don’t really know how to properly take care of your suit either. I just don’t want to ruin that dress…”
As Kalysto fumbled around, Desiree followed him to watch. She took note of how he was taking care of the dress before she nodded. She then looked over at the clock.
“It seems we have about an hour and a half to two hours before we have to be there.”
“Oh good…” Kalysto replied. “Gives me time to… sober up…” He hiccuped slightly and rolled over onto his tummy, pulling the pillow up under his face. After he was settled, a slow grin spread across his face.
“Wake me in an hour…” He hummed. “Hopefully I won’t be too pissed to fly…” He pointed in a random direction. “The tickets are in the underwear drawer. Hiding under my red ones.”
Desiree rolled her eyes before she moved in to poke Kalysto’s back. “Next time, don’t drink so much. And don’t worry too much, there should be a restroom in the plane anyway.”
So, she wandered off to change into more casual clothing. For the next hour, she moved about the area to insure that they had everything that they’d ever need packed up. She double and triple checked her suitcase during this time. Once she was certain that everything was packed, she moved the baggage into the SUV.
Over the next hour, Kalysto remained face down on the pillow. While not completely sobered up, his rest did make him feel a little better. He moved into the bathroom to comb his hair off and gargle with mouth-wash in an attempt to kill some of the wine-breath he still had. He heard Desiree thumping around as she moved things, and he changed into more casual clothing, moving into the living room himself to inspect what was going on.
“Nearly ready to go?”
Desiree stretched as she came back into the house after packing away a few more suitcases. She then looked about before she nodded.
“Yea, I think I have everything ready now. So, we can leave in the next twenty minutes. Take that time if you need it, Kalysto.”
Kalysto waved a hand at Desiree, then sat down on the lounge. “I’ll be fine,” He stated. “I’ve lived through worse. I still have my higher brain function so that’s rather fortunate.” He nodded. “Just trust me on this one, alright? All I need is a drink, and sleep. And we can sleep on the plane.”
Desiree hummed in approval to Kalysto’s words as she nodded her head. She then walked over to him before she nudged his left shoulder.
“Very well then. Let’s be off. The sooner we get there, the sooner you can relax on the plane and not worry about anything more than sleep,” Desiree stated. “By the way, have you ever ridden in a plane before?”
Kalysto waggled his head. “It was one of those hack-job engineering contraptions. It was steam powered I think… but yes, I’ve flown in a plane before. Not the type we’re going to our holiday in though.”
He moved to the refrigerator to get himself some cold icey water. “I hope Orphy and Milly won’t miss us too much…”
“They’re in good hands, Kalysto. So, I don’t think we need to worry,” Desiree assured the elf. “And it’s good that you’ve ridden in one. I’ve never actually been on one. This is new to me.”
She looked around for a moment before she walked over to Kalysto in order to nudge him. “Come on, let’s go.”
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Meanwhile, Jenna had set Orpheus down in one of the spare cribs that was left over from her previous children. She had also shown Milena Iris’s room, for she figured that the hybrid could sleep on a mat in that room.
Milena cried miserably as she was led into the room. She curled up on the mat on the floor, weeping and squeaking. She missed her parents and although the place she was in now wasn’t entirely unfamiliar, she didn’t want to be there anyway.
Kalysto nodded his head and made his way out to the SUV. “Bye, guys. Lock up the house when you leave. Have a hot shower, use my soaps if you want. Just don’t stink up the place too much with your icky Troll stench. You know what I mean.”
“Eh?” Zulmire frowned. “‘Dah Trolls don’t stink ‘dat much… bai-bai now.”
Jenna sighed at Milena’s crying, but didn’t really do much about it. She knew that the girl was upset but not in any real distress. So, she just let her cry to her heart’s content.
Instead, the sorceress moved to her bedroom so that she could feed Kether and prepare him to sleep for the night. She had yet to move Kether’s crib out of the master bedroom due to the boy’s inability to make any significant noises.
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Meanwhile, Desiree drove Kalysto to the airport. She refused to look at the tickets before arriving to the airport, because she wanted their destination to be a surprise to her. So, after checking in their bags and storing their car in the garage, Desiree followed Kalysto to the boarding area.
Kalysto hung around in the boarding area once their ticket details and paperwork was managed. He’d been in a plane before, but not never one that needed so much ridiculous documentation taken care of beforehand.
He sat and waited around, bored. He gave a curious glance to Desiree occaisonally, humming with boredom.
This was the first time for Desiree to ride in a plane, so she didn’t know what to expect. However, she didn’t want to look nervous at all. So, she just sat at their gate as she patiently waited. Thankfully, since the airport was small, the area was not too populated at the moment. Also, they didn’t have much of a wait.
Once the announcement for boarding was made, Desiree stood up to move to her designated seat.
Kalysto followed Desiree onto the aircraft, taking his seat shortly afterwards. He had picked the more narrow seat side of the plane and thus he and Desiree had both an aisle and a window seat to fight over.
“This is it? He glanced down at the seats, somewhat dissapointed. “Oh well…” He sat in the window seat, nudging Desiree. “If you want to swap, let me know. We have to get another plane when this one lands, and then that one will be flying for 10 hours straight. Definitely a good time to catch up on sleep.”
Desiree nodded at Kalysto’s statements. She figured ten hours would be a good time to catch up on sleep, so it made sense. For now, she just looked around the plane, noting how small and cramped it was. However, she just settled down in her seat and relaxed.
Kalysto took his seat. He was quiet throughout most of the takeoff, interested by the scenery. However, once they were in the air and flying off towards their first flight point, he quickly became bored. The male looked around for something to do, soon discovering the pouch in the front of his seat.
Within a few minutes, every piece of documentation was messily splayed out across his tray table, and he began to read it.”Heh. Hey Desi,” He said, bumping her arm to grab her attention. “Want to buy some unreasonably priced kitchen tools?” He pushed the airplane-catalogue over to her, smirking. “Have a look at how fast people are. This catalogue is already quoting in your old-world’s currency.”
When snacks came around, the elf was very unhappy at the small portions offered. He munched through his bag of assorted peanuts within minutes and leaned back in the seat, grumbling to himself in Thalassian.
“I’m already bored.” He stated plainly when he looked out the window. All he could see now were clouds, clouds, and more clouds. Oh, and blue sky.
Desiree glanced at Kalysto before she released a slow, labored sigh. “Kalysto, we’ve been merged for about two years now. I think it is more than reasonable that they printed that information in that amount of time.”
She then reached over to gently rub the back of Kalysto’s left ear. As she rubbed his ear, she gave him an mp3 player that she had brought along.
“Here, play some of the games on this.”
“Phh,” Kalysto frowned, unhappy. At least, until Desiree began to scratch his ear. A slow content grin spread across his face and he seemed particularly pleased when she handed him the MP3 Player. He popped the earbuds in his ears, twisting his ears back slightly to hold them in place.
He began to occupy himself for a good while with the device. “Thanks,” He said to her after a few moments. “This is really decent.”
Desiree hummed as she watched Kalysto shift his ears about to hold the buds in place. She then muttered to herself, “Remind me to buy headphones that would work for you. That doesn’t look comfortable.”
“Hmm?” Kalysto glanced over at her again. Even though the music was now quite loud, he was still able to hear her somehow. “It’s fine, Desiree. They haven’t really developed headphones specifically for elven ears.”
He leaned back in his seat and was relatively quiet throughout most of the remainder of the flight.
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