Upon Vestia: Chapter Nineteen

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(Day 11 I think)

Thr babies happily opened their mouth for food!

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Thaila start wt him, "H-he knows?" She squeaked, fidgeting a bit as she bite her lip. "Well... We still gotta tell the rest of your family..." She said softly, "Uhm, got any chocolate or something for your brother..?"

Web frowned. "What?" He couldn't understand the pig latin.

Even Kay didn't seem to understand it. Hmm. He shook his head, whatever, not his problem if the ship was having a breakdown.

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Matt shifted uncomfortably. "Well... yeah.. only Kay doesn't know now.. " oops? "I uh.. still think we should wait till tomorrow. I mean, he was pretty stressed already. With the full moon, the whole... situation with Esk getting hurt, I don't think we should like.. provoke him any more. Gotta wait till he's in a good mood. Maybe uh.. maybe we can get Asher on side and come up with some way to break it to him? " He looked uncertain. "But yeah uh.. i'm sorry. Esk's too good at reading me and was too doped up to really know what he was saying... I think. Probably. " He looked guilty. "and uh.. Dawn.. also.. now knows." He admitted. She'd been there too after all.

Vestia was relieved when Kay looked like he didn't understand, and was doubly relieved that the Guild hadn't added automatic Pig Latin translation to the translator. Whew. "Audio glitch, guys. Carry on."

Asher kept his face straight and lead the way toward Hydroponics.

Thalia sighed, "we can't keep on pushing it out forever. They are gonna notice it soon." She said, "plus, I would like to start doing check ups..."

Moone would feed the chicks until they weren't hungry anymore. Even as young as she was, she was quite often the one left to take care of them with her sister's new 'boyfriend' taking her attention. She hadn't seen Skye though, but she had seen him at the festival.

Matt nodded, she had a point. "Dawn's willing to do that, least... I think she is. Probably better to see another girl right?" he had no idea. "Tomorrow we'll break the news okay? I promise."

"I am doubtful Kay would enjoy doing it." Thaila softly snorted, amuses by the thought.

Matt shook his head. "Nah, he said after Heny that he never wanted to see that much of a woman again." He snickered, that was maybe a lie.
"Anyway, they're giving Web a tour right now but I thought i'd warn you of the impending family reunion this time." He reached out to stroke Thalia's cheek gently. "You look beautiful." He told her sincerely.

"Ugh... I hope it less drama then what we been having." She sighed leaning her head on his cheek as she softly smiled. He felt warm feelings mirrored towards him. "Thank you."

Matt chuckled. "nah, of all my siblings, Web's the one least likely to start a fight."
He gazed out the window at the people far below. "So, you feeling up the party tonight?"

"Yea, no drinking though." She smirked. "For either of us." She teased playfully poking him.

Matt made a face. "no fair!" He laughed. "Don't worry, getting drunk isn't so fun on your own"

She stuck her tongue out, "Hey, your not as fun drunk." She grins deviously. Thaila rolled her neck briefly turning her back to the window.

Matt shook his head. "I'm plenty fun drunk." He protested. But he wouldn't get drunk tonight if it mattered so much to her. He hadn't really been drinking so much lately anyway, he'd been too worried and stressed to want to do what he considered a celebratory act.
"Do you want anything?" He asked, he'd become a little overbearing recently with his insistance on making sure she was okay

She softly smiled, "Yea. Wouldn't mind some chocolate." Ever since she became pregnant chocolates was her craving. At this rate between her and Heny stress eating binges Vestia was going to be out of chocolate soon.,"Have you seen Heny today?" Thaila asked, she knew the other keeper been on edge with Merith trial and something else it felt like. She felt bad for her, it seemed like whenever Heny felt happy things went to shit.

Matt shook his head, honestly he and Heny hadn't really had any interaction since she'd punched him in the face. "it's not like she you know.. goes out of her way to be social right?" He looked away. "Especially not with me."

James eventually decided to leave the impromptu cafe party, to go look for Acus. Maybe he could invite the guy to the party! Maybe, for once, Acus would actually say yes!

...Probably not.

Still, it was worth a try, right? He headed for wherever the heck Acus was.

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Ethan used James as an excuse to sneak out of the party, and headed toward the library.

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Ellie and Tala were still in the cafe, Tala had consumed most of the beers Ellie had brought, oops.

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Asher, Kay, and Web's tour might be just about done now. Despite how many rooms Vestia had, a lot of them weren't really that exciting to show off to newcomers.

Acus was in the process of actually doing some minor repairs SD been majorly needed but been push off. He focused on that damn vent that always rattled when the AC turned on.

James found Acus after a bit and came over to lounge against a wall, watching him work. "My goodness Captain, you should repair air vents more often, you look good fixing things," he teased.

Thaila sighed, "I think she more worried about her kids now." She said softly grasping his hand.

Matt squeezed her hand. "Who can blame her? I mean shit... the impending war is bad enough but then Merith.. " He sighed.

Acus scowled and rolled his eyes, he had some grease smears on his face as he looked at him, "I see you are your usually self." He cursed softly as he managed to nick his hand.

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She nodded, "Plus, I think something else is bothering her. Every time she see a guild members she just mentally panic." Thaila shrugged, leaning her head on his shoulder as they walked.

James batted his eyelashes at Acus, then looked apologetic as Acus hurt himself. "Aww crap, sorry about that. Does that mean I need to bandage you now?"
He seemed kind of reluctant to help. Which wasn't the right reaction since he was still trying to make Acus believe that he was still a Three Laws compliant android. Oops.
Man, maybe he should just tell Acus he was free one of these days, and stop this idiotic charade. For all he knew, Acus might have already figured out that he was free, hmm.

Matt shrugged. "I don't think a lot of us are that comfortable around these Guild people really though." He shook his head. "if you wanna go talk to her, I won't stop you. Just.. it's probably better you do that without me. I'm not sure I really want to be hit again." He cracked a smile.

Acus looked at him, "Your acting sucks." He said while pulling out a bandaid to put it on the nick.

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Thaila smirked, "Well to be fair I think everyone was tense around that time. Anyway we may be able to convince her to let the kids in the nusery."

James blinked. "What do you mean?" He asked. Oh crap, had Acus guessed he was free?

He gave him the look and rolled his eyes, "Ever since we got here you been acting off program, and on top of that failing to act like the three laws controlled you." He said standing up and stretching a little, checking the vent with trying to use his foot to rattle it.