52 A Warm Family (2/2)
”Good Evening, Emberlynn,” Ekon says waling up beside me.
”Hello, Governess,” Mime says with a bow.
A small laugh leaves my Mother's mouth as she watches him.
”You don't need to keep up titles here, little one. Feel free to address me as Emberlynn if you'd like or auntie. Whichever you prefer,” she smiles.
Ha, she was easy going but I could see the grin in her eyes. My mother absolutely adores children, I'm sure that she just wanted to hug him.
Walking forward, I take the seat next to Salem and Cecily quickly sits next to me. Ekon and Mime sit next to each other on the opposite side of the table next to Clemente.
”We've prepared some desert for everyone,” I say.
Some servant comes forward and quickly begin to put food down in front of us. Sitting in front of my on the plate is a smoke golden duck. It's blood pools around it inside of the bowl it's sitting in.
To the side of that blood jellied bread was placed and a tall glass of star juice is place. On the opposite side, a glass of dark black blood is placed down next to me.
Cecily gets the same thing just without all the blood. The boys are quickly given plates as well.
”What did you make for us, Sis?” Clemente asks.
”We made some desert from Mime's home country.”
”Oh, that will be exciting to taste,” my mother comment as she places a soft bit of duck in her mouth.
”Did you make anything special for your dear old dad?”
”Horace, you've got it bad, don't you?” Garrik snort, downing a mug of beer.
”What the hell are you talking about? Who wouldn't be excited to get a hand-baked sweet from there darling little daughter?” My father roars.
They start to get into a fight and I just roll my eyes stabbing a piece of duck and popping it into my mouth. The sweet and savory taste of the fresh meat enters my mouth, along with the thick taste of blood.
”How are you feeling?” Salem asks, turning to look at me.
His face is drawn into a worried expression. He must have heard about what happened earlier with Clemente.
”I'm doing great. I spent most of the day resting.”
”That right! Cecily made sure that she relaxed for a bit today!” She declares looking straight into my brothers' eyes.
He looks right back at her, and his eyes are soft as he nods his head. ”Good! It's your job to make sure that she doesn't work so hard all the time!” He says matter of factly.
Cecily nods her little head listening to every word that he has to say.
”Is that really necessary you two?” I ask.
”Of course,” they reply at the same time.
”If you're left on your own, I'm sure that you'd run yourself into the ground with training. I still don't even understand why your rushing to take your class test,” he says rubbing his nose.
”We're taking it early so that we can go on adventurers,” Ekon chimes in all of the sudden.
”Cecily understands, we want to explorer and adventurer as soon as possible!” She clenches her little fist.
A hint of surprise flashes over Salem's face as he looks at all of us.
”See you heard them! We've got to work hard so that we can go on adventures!” I say cheekily.
”It's no use arguing with her, Salem. She's already made up her mind and her friends are willing to follow that. Shouldn't we respect that?” My mother asks.
A complex expression appears on my brother's face as he looks downwards at his food.
”You're not alone, Son! I don't want her to do it either, but I promised your mother that I'd let her do what she wants. You know our little blood candy is as stubborn as her Mother!” My father cries as he slams his hand on the table.
”Pfft,” I try to stop myself from laughing.
”Come on, Father. Don't lie you're just as stubborn, if not more so. She probably got her stubbornness from you,” Clemente snorts.
The bickering doesn't stop after that. But it was nice, I felt warm on the inside.
Being surrounded by family and friends was defiantly the best thing ever!