alleluia

[jovahs_heiress]

Alleluia and Caleb tell their children about magic, one by one. Isabella meets with each one to clarify a few matters. She gives Ezra a job, at the Eyrie - it is convenient to have more people around who know her secrets. And the youngest, an angel girl named Naamah, just nineteen (a last minute surprise to her parents), wants someone to talk to who is more familiar with magic than her but isn't up to their neck in it like Isabella or Micaiah - or even her own parents, who have been to all those Bell parties.

Isabella thinks about this.

[Nathaniel?]

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[pythbox]

He adds the one Aedyt gave him onto it, then starts carefully disassembling the thing.

[temporal_affairs]

Nathan laughs. This occasion, like the overwhelming majority of occasions, calls for him to nuzzle his mate.

[pythbox]

...That is really cute.

[manofmyword]

It is, it is really cute!

The Joker nuzzles him back, which might be even cuter.

[pythbox]

Awwww. Nathaniel smiles at his slowly diminishing rubber band ball and the neat pile of rubber bands in his lap.

[temporal_affairs]

Nathan hangs out on the asteroid with mate, daughter, and visitor until it is a good time to bid everyone goodbye and pop back into the car with Kerron and resume roadtripping.

[pythbox]

In this time, Nathaniel pulls the rubber band ball apart completely and then puts it back together again. Seven different times.

[manofmyword]

"I think we found you a new hobby," giggles the Joker.

[pythbox]

"Can I keep it?" he asks shyly.

[manofmyword]

"Sure you can," he says, grinning. "So while you're here, wanna see any more of the world? We could go hang out in an emptyish capital site for a while."

[pythbox]

"Sure," says Nathaniel, smiling a little. He tosses his rubber band ball into the air and catches it.

[manofmyword]

The Joker waves to Aedyt and then teleports himself and Nathaniel to a random capital site not currently in use.

[alicornucopia]

No capital sites, these days, are truly empty; they all have some full-time staff, combinations of wolves and nonessential vampires. The Australian site doesn't have any permanent wolf residents in it, but it has a couple of vampires who can talk to visitors and give out pamphlets and generally serve as Golden Coven presence.

One of them is where they land.

She blinks at them.

"Hello," Renata says, tilting her head.

[pythbox]

"Um, hello," Nathaniel says, blinking back at her. "I'm Nathaniel."

[alicornucopia]

"I'm Renata," she says. "Um, welcome to the Australia capital site of the Golden Empire."

She is definitely looking at Nathaniel more than at the Joker.

[pythbox]

Yes. Nathaniel can see that. He is not sure how to feel about it, and therefore defaults to 'vaguely worried'.

[manofmyword]

The Joker... observes the proceedings.

[alicornucopia]

"You're pretty," says Renata to Nathaniel after a long silence.

[pythbox]

Nathaniel blushes.

"Um. So are you," he says.

[alicornucopia]

She smiles.

[pythbox]

He smiles, too.

[alicornucopia]

Renata appears perfectly unselfconscious about just sort of staring at him. She's mostly looking at his face, although occasionally her eyes make lazy sweeps down and back up.

[pythbox]

Nathaniel's blush is slowly developing into a blushier blush.

[manofmyword]

"Well, this is adorable," the Joker remarks.

[alicornucopia]

Renata tilts her head when the Joker talks, but she doesn't look at him.