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OOC here!


Io had made her rest on the back porch of the hotel. She lay on one of the furs she had dragged from the bedroom, willing to come to some sort of compremise that would she her off her feet for an hour or so and the boys entertained. The pups frolicked a few metres away, tumbing around with each other, play fighting until one wiggled loose and the chase started over again. 'Do not go too far, stay where I can see you' Io warned softly, as they bounded off further. 'Won't they chorused simultainiously, rolling away further as Io shook her head, smiling. 'Boys' she warned, more seriously this time. Yapping happily they bounded over, struggling up the steps to Io.


'Da? Jandro asked, Dymtr again staying silent, something which Io always feared, hoping to provoke his mother into a game of 'find daddy'. 'He is out, at the stable I think' Io replied instantly, knowing what her sons meant by their primative words. 'Find? Dymtr quieried softly. The russet and white woman rose. 'Okay then. We will go find him'. It wasn't a far way away and the boy's naptime wasn't for a while yet, so a few minutes set aside before their tea was disposeable. And so the trio made their way towards the stables.


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#2
The Austral man was again where he could usually be found which was at the stables working on them. They were almost complete now and even he had to admit he had done a good job on them. A few more fences needed to be finished and he needed to inspect everything again to make sure it was all secure but that was about the most of it really. Then would come the large task of moving all the large animals, the horses and cows plus the herd of sheep Anathema had possession of. At least the stupid goats were already settled and he didn't have to worry about those with the rest of them.

The man also saw to it that the pigs had enough food for the day. He enjoyed their company far more than the goats, they were engaging in a way with their soft grunting language, himself could only catch short snatches of their conversation through the wooden bars of their pens. He did not know much of their language not like he did with the horses and cows, those he could converse with mostly unless they spoke a language he did not know. The earthen man's ears picked up though as he heard the tell tale yapping of his children getting louder. Even though by blood only one was his, he still saw the dark furred Dymtr as his own, Shurui was never going to take parentage of the child, the Austral man understood that much about the white demon man.

The earth and chocolate man dropped down to his knees from his great height and the excited Alejandro crawled up into his lap and began gnawing on his fur in hello,

"Da! Da." Dymtr was less passionate as his sibling but he still came along with a grin on his face and a wagging tail, he was more like his mother in that respect showing less emotion keeping it hidden away behind his shiny pale green eyes,

"¡mis muchachos!"'My boys!'
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short, sorry ^^


Io followed behind her sons slowly as they bounded up to Leon, Alejandro of course more passionately than his cole shaded brother, though it was with geneuine love Dymtr closed the distance to his pseudo father with. Smilling tiredly, Io quickened her pace. 'Alejandro, stop climbing all over you father' her words were serious, holding honest threat, though they were still gentle and caring all the same. Io always seemed to managed the balance perfectly.


She approached the male with little bother now, he was working on the stables, and on the house. And any quarrals she had with Leon had been erased the night the boys were born. The russet and snow white hybrid lowered herself to the ground, 'How have you been?' she queried tiredly, letting a gentle hand stroke the boy's backs as they played with their father. 'Apologies for letting them leap on you like this, but they did insist'. She smiled, finally care free. Well as much as a mother with young sons could be. A subconcious thought let her mind drift to the fact she still had to tell Shurui.


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He was still wary of Io and her unpredictable temper and thought pattern. Ever since their argument or rather lack of argument over her going to see Shurui the two had been civil to each other but that was about it. Then once the children had been born the russet and white woman had seemed to settle and release a lot of her anger and tension but the man himself refused to be cowed for who knew what games she was playing and what the eventual outcome would be. The child that was without a doubt his wriggled around in his lap one last time before obeying his mother and sliding from his knees,

"You have been good boys for your Madre?" They gave him identical cheeky grins that proved they had been clowning around like they usually did. The giant laughed at the display and turned his eyes to Io. Some of the laughter and spirit drained from his eyes as he did. Their relationship was nothing special, it was broken and damaged with both of them at fault for the cracks that were so obvious he wouldn't be surprised if the children guessed it too. These children had not been made with love but they had been born into it even if their parents didn't love or even particularly like each other. His voice was again heavy with the accent of the Spaniards as it did often regress to when he spent a lot of time away from others.

"I have been good. The stables are almost finished." It was rather shallow really, he pretended to share things with her and she pretended to care about the answers. He waved off her apology, when he had been this age, not that he remembered it, from the stories told himself and his siblings had always been bugging either their father or mother.
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Io was almost pleased to see that her very face could drain the laughter from Leon's own. It felt empowering to have that kind of control over some one like Leon. She didn't wish to make him suffer, no, he had suffered enough. In fact it was him now that was making himself suffer. He was civil with her now and she was happy with it like that. At his mother and pseudo father stoic conversation, Dymtr frowned. It was an odd frown, perhaps because it was on the face of a child his age. Io nudged him quickly, eager to have the stare banished. Jandro seemed oblivious to it, either that or he just wasn't interested.


'Will it be finished by Christmas?' she queried, though it wasn't as if she minded. It was celebrated back home, with large lavish festivities, but Io wasn't fussed whether they did or did not celebrate it. Io supposed it would be nice for the boys but she wouldn't make the effort if no one else did. She had ignored the flatness in his voice, casting it away in an effort to stay civil thought there had been a rather annoyed, yet brief, glare in his direction.

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#6
oh god, why does this post fail so much
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On some primal level Io and himself connected and rather surprisingly fit together quite well. They brought out the worst in each other and if they ever bothered to try and start a relationship it would most likely be one of those where they couple constantly sniped and griped and harassed each other but never actually broke up, too unwilling to face the future alone and without the other, eventually growing to feed from the toxic chemicalness that was their relationship. Fortunately for him he had no wish to pursue a relationship with Io now or in the future.

His eyebrows pulled together in a frown of confusion. Christmas? What the hell was that? He stared at her with a puzzled expression for several seconds trying to decide if she was serious of if she had suddenly gone off the deep end into madness. Jandro gurgled laughter at his father's expression and strove to copy it, pulling a confused face at his brother. Dymtr glanced a hesitant look at his mother before sticking his tongue out at Alejandro.

"What is this Christmas? I have never heard of it before." The man had never heard of the bible or Christianity despite it being a widely accepted religion among the more civilized European countries. His parents had been non religious especially to something that had been believed by humans. The few utterances he heard on the ship over had been roundly ignored. He put his stock into no god, and believed in himself to get his work done and to make his life what it was. Hard work and effort was the key to success and everything good in life. He came from a farming background where the amount of effort you put in was directly proportional to what you got back from the land.
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OOC here!

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Pulling Dymtr closer to her, she laughed, and then she glanced up to Leon and saw it was true confusion. 'You haven'tear of Christmas' she questioned, frowning. With a shake of her head Io spoke again, eager to move on from the situation before she found herself forced to explain, 'Disregard it. Will it be finished by late December. No doubt Leon would question what was so significant about late December, though Io didn't want to explain something she found so trivial. If he wanted to know about it so much why didn't he jsut go look it up himself. Though it was laughable, a Spaniard. One of the most Christian communities and his family were one of the only ones who didn't celebrate it.


Dymtr didn't seem too bothered by the strange word, he merely sat next to his mother, watching his 'father's' confused face. Jandro however shared his father's puzzled appearance, though Io assured that it was merely him striving to copy his father. 'Da? Sup?' he called, creeping over and nipping at his hands. Io found herself shaking her head, 'Leave your father alone, he has been working' she ordered softly. Dymtr yapped out a back up, standing up and trying his best to look tough, 'Ya'.


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Her laugh made him tense and his fur prickle, a tic went off in his eye and the lid spasmed shut ever so slightly, a muscle in his jaw also following the pattern. How was it that when in the presence of this.. this.. devil he lost all of his reasoning and respect for women. Io Berlin was a devil whore as sure as his eyes were white. The glare thrown at him changed nothing of his blank stare or expression, he knew it was unhealthy for the children to see them interact this way but.. it was this or anger and he couldn't afford anger, not with the way she made him react violently. The image of her bruised and bloody body came to mind and he pushed it away, some very small part of him wanted to make her look like that again, make her scared, make her fear and respect him.

"No, I have not. Poor farmers have no time to waste on frivolity." It was most likely some celebration or formality. His family had held their own small celebrations on the important dates, the changing of the seasons for one and the harvest.

"Yes." A one word answer, how childish of him.
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occgoodnessss


Io shook her head, 'Poor farmers have no time for their families?' she questioned, a sharp reply to Leon's assumption that Christmas was frivolous and had no use. 'It is a time for being a family' she echoed, 'I think we could do with that attitude around here' she noted, her words barbed and her eyes cold. Dymtr nuzzled in closer, clearly Io was his favourite and she was his, Jandro was his father's son and Io prefered it that way. Though she had take Analise under her wing, finding that she needed it, alongside her father's care. There was no doubt he was a good father, but Io understood things he didn't and vice versa. It was a harmonious pairing, however restless it was.


'Good' she replied, giving him a childish response to his own. She considered muttering 'about time' but he had gotten it done in much less time that she had expected him to complete it in. But it was merely a candle to what the Cesarskian builders could do. After all alongside efficiency, the afforded decorations in the wood work which allowed them to become akin to artwork. After all, the mountain side clan prized their buildings, she knew this all too well as her father had been a remarkable builder as well as one of the highest ranked.

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He shook his head slowly at her question, feeling irritation with her deep in his gut but he suppressed it for now, in front of their sons was not to time to start an argument, at least not unless it could be done with words they didn't understand yet. "We have different celebrations, for the changing of the seasons and the harvest, but that is all, we celebrate our families every day we remain alive." The man's ear twitched and he turned as a crow sudden; loud out a loud piercing call behind him, but after several seconds he confirmed it wasn't one of the crows that were being used as an alarm system. One could never be too careful with the lunatics and murderers that were around, Shurui being one of them, he knew the white male as stalking him and that at some point in the future they may clash again.

He turned back to the travesty of a family that they were playing at, most of his joy at seeing his sons was gone now replaced by a hard bitter feeling that burned his throat and settled uneasily in his stomach, although not aimed at anyone present. He saw the obvious way that Io favored the son of the demon and all just rejected his own, discontent welled around his soul and he longest to take Jandro away from here, away from her and raise him alone like he had done to Analise. His blank stare finally dropped as he settled back with a small huff of breath, an even smaller smile curling his lips as Jandro ever so slowly so as to escape Io's notice began to chew on his fur again, watchful eyes waiting for any retribution that would come from his mother while his father pretended not to notice.
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when she shouts at jandro it's not in english because she's pissssed~ at him and im too lazy to use translate XD fail post (###)


Why did he have to go and sound all high and mighty for. Io felt her teeth grate in irritation at him, but did nothing more than send him a glare when in front of the boys. 'Some people have other things to concentrate their efforts on' she replied stoically, 'I prefer to keep my mind off of my family when I'm not near them'. It wasn't out of spite, or disinterest. Merely because she found it too much of a strain on herself to repetitively worry about them. Dymtr rubbed up against her side, and in response the collie woman picked up the lithe puppy and set him down on her lap, petting him affectionately. She noticed Jandro gnawing at Leon's fur again and with a roll of her eyes, she spoke, 'Alejandro. Stop it!' Her words were more or less a hiss, pulling him back by the fur at the base of his tail she sat him down before her.


Dymtr grinned from Io's lap, enjoying the show, 'Go. Over there. I shall deal with you late'. Io's words were sharp and they were an order. Jandro's body was a perfect show of submission, jsut as he had been taught. It is Leon's laxness, she thought, That has caused this... The russet and white woman found herself irritated by his poor parenting skills, but she had to admit. At least he was better than Shurui.


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