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Arya Oros ([info]arya_oros) wrote in [info]thedas,
@ 2010-10-30 11:48:00

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Entry tags:! thread, & before 9:45, @ arya oros, @ terin oros

Backscene: Perfectly Innocent
Who: Sellion Oros (NPC), Terin Oros, Haldir Oros (NPC), Arya Oros
Where: Denerim Alienage
When: 9:29 Dragon Ferventis 16
Summary: Partha bakes a pie for Arya's fourth birthday, and the siblings scheme to get a piece before the celebrations begin
Rating: C for cuteness?



"No, sweets, it isn't ready yet. Let it cool, and then we'll all have some for your birthday," Partha's soft voice was music to young Arya's ears; her mother tapped her on the noise, bringing forth a smile on the young elf's face. It was her fourth birthday, four years of life that were being celebrated by her family today. Once her father got hom from the carpenter's, of course - her brothers were still home, having been left behind to help their mother with the preparations for the small party they'd have. There were no decorations, necessarily, but a beautiful pot of flowers fresh from a neighbor's garden and clean though somewhat worn dishes were all laid out on the table, and the celebratory blackberry pie had been fixed.

The fruit had been purchased from a neighbor who was lucky enough to have a small blackberry bush growing in their front yard, carefully tended and cared for since the berries were so difficult to come by otherwise. Upon hearing that it was the youngest Oros' birthday, they'd gladly parted with the fruit for mere coppers. Partha had been in the kitchen all day, Arya constantly underfoot, but Partha wouldn't have it any other way.

"Haldir! Haldir, where are you, dear?" Partha moved the pie to a window sill for it to cool in the near evening breeze; the kitchen was tiny, barely five or six paces across, but it was full of the smells of various foods that Partha made throughout the day and it was possibly the best room to be in in the Oros' household. Arandur would be home soon, but Arya was feeling a little impatient. Haldir, a skinny thirteen years old, popped his head into the kitchen, his blonde hair falling over blue eyes in bad want of a haircut. Partha smiled to see her youngest boy.

"Where are your brothers?"

"Sellion and Terin are in the bedroom, Mama. Should I get them?"

Partha shook her head. "No, love. Just wanted to make sure everyone was at hand for when your father gets home. Then we'll eat, all right?" Haldir nodded, and Partha gave him an affectionate pat on his head as she moved past him into the combination living space and dining room; next to that was the bedroom they all shared, the adults and the children all crammed into the tiny space but somehow it worked. After a few moments of padding footsteps, he heard the front door open and close. Haldir looked over to his sister, who made a face at her elder brother, the kind she knew would make him laugh. His face creased into something of a smile and he just shook his head.

"What mischief is waking in that head of yours, Arya?" She pointed to the pie, high upon the windowsill. Even at thirteen Haldir wasn't quite tall enough to reach it either. They might need Sellion's or Terin's help, but Haldir was lax to ruin the pie his mother had worked so hard on for such a special occasion. He shook his head, and Arya crossed her arms over her chest and pouted.

"Pie!" She said firmly, stamping a foot. Haldir only laughed, and picked up his sister. Carrying her to the bedroom, he glanced at Terin and Sellion playing some card game for amusement while they were all waiting for Arandur to return home. Haldir watched his brothers for a moment, and then glanced at Arya, who was giving him the face again as though making him laugh would convince him to aid her in her nefarious plot to get the pie. Surely one bite wouldn't hurt, and it was Arya's birthday. The younger Oros siblings looked at the elder, and a plan was formed.

"Hey Terin? Mama needs your help outside. Sellion, Arya and I could use your help in the kitchen. Um, cleaning pots, yah know." Haldir and Arya smiled innocently, as though nothing could be afoot.


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I need to find kid pictures for Terin... hmhmhmmmmm
[info]oros
2010-10-30 11:04 pm UTC (link)
At the sound of his siblings entering the bedroom, Terin glanced up from the cards on the floor. He smiled at them lightly before turning his attention back to the game he and his older brother, Sellion, had engaged themselves in. It wasn't necessarily a fun game, but it made the time pass and kept Sellion out of Terin's hair. The two brother's couldn't have been more different from one another, but they were still close nonetheless.

"Ha!" Sellion exclaimed, throwing a card down on the ground. "I win!" He pumped both fists into the air in a silent victory cry before turning to look at his siblings. He cocked an eyebrow at his brother's request and looked at back at Terin questioningly. Sellion was the eldest of the four siblings. He had three years on Terin and fourteen on his baby sister. "Cleaning pots? That's no a job for a man!" he claimed with a laugh. At the age of eighteen, he was all about doing men's jobs. He'd help out around the house if his mother asked, but his mother hadn't.

Terin was a bit perplexed by the direction as well. He didn't see the same distinction between jobs for men and women did and it was he who was often asked to help with household chores. He didn't mind helping his mother, it gave him an excuse to not be out playing with the other children and getting into all kinds of trouble. He didn't question the orders though and just shrugged, getting up from where he sat on the floor. "Man's job or not, Sellion, mother must've asked them to come get you to help so let's go. It's the whole reason father had us stay home today," he said to his brother, offering him a hand up from the floor.

Grimacing slightly, Sellion took his brother's outstrechted hand and allowed himself to be pulled up from the floor. Kicking the cards into a pile, he turned to his youngest siblings and opened his arms to herd them out of the bedroom. "Alright, kids, let's get this over with," he directed, heaving a dramatic sigh.

Laughing to himself, Terin should his head lightly and headed for the front door to find his mother. He paused just as he reached out for the handle, glancing over his shoulder to watch for a moment as Sellion helped Arya stand on one of the few chairs they had so she could reach the wash tub. He smiled to himself before pressing the door open and going outside to find their mother.

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You totally do.
[info]arya_oros
2010-11-02 06:02 pm UTC (link)
Haldir only responded to his brothers by rolling his eyes - Terin, who was often hesitant in joining in on the other children's fun, was easily distracted. Now to engage Sellion and convince him to aide in the theft. It was Arya's birthday, after all, and surely there'd be no harm in just having a few bites.

Arya, meanwhile, was almost climbing into the tub in an attempt for it to make her tall enough to reach the counter, and thereby the sill upon which the pie rested. Haldir quickly grabbed her, knowing she'd just knock it off the sill with her chubby and clumsy hands, and probably into the dirt outside. His sister had a very strange relationship with dirt, and was often covered in it from head to toe despite all the baths Partha would give her. It was though she walked in a constant cloud, and obviously enjoyed it since whenever they let her go outside, she returned covered in a thin film. It amused Partha to no end, and the boys, when outdoors, often joined their sister in such recreation anyway.

"Sellion," Haldir whispered. "Are you too manly to help us get some pie? Just a bite. You know, a taste test. It's Arya's birthday, after all." He held up their younger sister in front of him, and like a dog on command, she started in with big eyes and pouty lips, folding her hands and pressing them to one cheek in an effort to convince her eldest brother.

"Pwease? Pie pwease?" Haldir nearly dangled the girl in front of Sellion's face, trying to convince him. Worst came to worst, he would just have to lift Arya to the counter and hope that she didn't knock the pie out the window. Which was pretty much certain to happen, and so they continued their barrage of cute on Sellion in hopes that he'd just reach up and snatch the pie from the sill. Arya reached out to put a hand on each of Sellion's cheeks, still doing the pouty face.

"Pwease pie, Sell? You reach, pwease?"

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it might help to thumbtack this thread to so i know when you respond~
[info]oros
2010-11-05 11:14 pm UTC (link)
Sellion couldn't argue with the fact that his little sister was adorable. She could have gotten away with murder if she wanted to. He could have easily have said no to Haldir on his little quest to get the pie, but looking into Arya's big blue baby eyes... he couldn't tell her no. She was just too cute. That and he didn't want to be the one to make her cry.

Taking a deep breath, he let it out in one big rush. His shoulders slackened slightly as he gave into his little sister's begging and nodded a few times. "Alright, alright, but you two have to be quiet..." he said, moving around the wash bin to get a better angle for taking the pie off the sill.

He peered out the window to see if his mother was looking. From where he stood he could see her and Terin standing by the produce vendor who's stall was just steps away from their door. He smirked slightly, knowing his other brother was completely clueless to what his siblings were really doing inside. Partha's back was to the window as she spoke to her second oldest son, handing him verious vegetables to take back into the kitchen for her no doubt. Gingerly, Sellion reached up and plucked the pie from the sill. It was at that moment that Terin caught sight of what his brother was doing and his eyes went wide.

He didn't let his surprise betray him any as his mother handed him the last carrot from her purchase and he went back inside with his bundle. Closing the door behind him, he quickly made his way to the table and dropped the vegetables there. "What are you doing?!" he demanded of Sellion, who had already set the warm pie on the table.

Sellion shrugged his shoulders lightly at his brother's question. "Arya wanted to test the pie before dinner tonight," he said with a wicked grin. She would be his reason for snatching the pie, but truth was he had really wanted a slice ever since it came out of the oven.

Terin rolled his eyes and moved to pick the pie up and take it back to the sill. "You shouldn't have moved it, Sell," he scolded, like his words would have any affect on his brother.

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[info]arya_oros
2010-11-08 05:42 pm UTC (link)
Arya's pleading immediately dissolved into a wide, baby-toothed grin, and Haldir set her down as she had started squirming. And, of course, no sooner than Sellion had gotten the pie down from the sill did Terin appear to spoil the fun. Arya rushed over to Terin, wrapping herself around his leg and immediately began to use the puppy eyes on him as well, her only weapon due to her small stature.

"Tewin, want pie!" She threw in a lip tremble on top of it, and Haldir was doing his best to not burst out laughing. She only ever did this with her family - for whatever reason, Arya was hardly given to acting like a girl except when she wanted something. That something was usually food, which she'd be more than happy the smear all over her face rather than eat (or perhaps it was her strange process of eating that sent the food to such a location). Terin always had the habit of either staying out of his sibling's mischief, or spoiling it - of course, up until they'd framed him for putting frogs in Arandur's shoes one morning, that was, and now he seemed dead set on stopping them whenever they got an idea into their heads.

"Come on, Terin, Mama won't be upset. You know she'll just laugh," he tried his own needling of his brother, having become set in the idea of having the pie as well. "After all, it's for Arya's birthday." He tried to move in front of his brother, stopping him from taking the pie, which was now precariously between two siblings on the opposite ends in the decision of what to do with said pastry. Arya continued clinging to Terin's leg in her attempts to be adorable.

Meanwhile, outside, Partha was finishing up the shopping and wondering just where her son had disappeared to. She shrugged, a small smile playing about her face due to her happiness from the occasion. Absolutely nothing could ruin this day for her.

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[info]oros
2010-11-08 09:51 pm UTC (link)
As soon as he set foot in the door, Arya attached herself to his leg and pouted up at him. It was almost too much for Terin to bear. She had an uncanny way of being terribly adorable and it got her almost anything she wanted. Just looking at her made him want to take her side, but the memory of Arandur's, albeit funny, rage at the frog's in his shoes wouldn't let him.

"She doesn't want us ruining our supper," he countered, trying his best to win a fight he knew he was sure to loose. He'd played this game with his siblings before. He didn't have anyone on his side and so, eventually, he would loose. And while he didn't always object to whatever scheme they were planning, he knew he still had to be the voice of reason for his siblings.

Terin did his best to ignore the blonde babe on his leg, though it was increasingly difficult. With each passing moment he didn't look at her, she seemed to cling tighter and tighter to his leg, jutting her bottom lip out further and further. He almost couldn't take it.

Sellion just laughed at his brother, knowing the struggle he was going through, and went around the table to his side. He clasped a hand on his shoulder and squeezed it lightly, doing his best to give him a "comforting" smile. "You know Mama won't be mad when she sees how happy Arya is with her face covered in pie filling. She won't be able to help laughing at it," he said, attempting to paint a mental picture for him.

Terin closed his eyes at his brother's words, cursing him for ever planting that image in his head. He bit his lower lip lightly, trying to stay true in his resolve, though he could feel himself wavering. Taking a deep breath, he let it out slowly and in that exhale his entire body seemed to relax. He'd broken. "Alright," he said, bending over to scoop the blonde girl up and rest her on his hip, "But I get to cut her a piece. She doesn't need to be given the whole thing."

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[info]arya_oros
2010-11-12 07:11 pm UTC (link)
She yelled happily as Terin picked her up and brought her to settle on his hip. Of course, immediately she turned and began to reach for the pie.

"You look busy, tho, so allow me," Haldir butted in, grinning at his brother now that they had him convinced to help them. "Sell, watch to see when Mama's due back? Not like it will make that much difference..." He looked from his brother back to the counter, where Arya was reaching for all she was worth for the pie. Haldir moved it out of her reach, which caused her to pout.

"Haldy, pie!" She demanded, the cute little girl gone the moment she was promised what she wanted. She crossed her arms and pouted, though instead of looking adorable her face simply looked stormy.

"Sheesh, Arya, a moment," he mumbled, though a smile still played around his face. He started to look for a clean knife, when Arya, determined to get the pie no matter what the cost, threw herself from Terin's arms and onto the counter, where her movements immediately slid the pie from its safe perch and onto the floor. Blueberry filling and crust went everywhere. Crouching on the counter top, Arya gave a triumphant whoop, threw her arms in the air, and jumped from the counter to the floor where she immediately began to cover herself in blue.

Haldir stared in horror at the mess that had been created in only moments in the tiny kitchen, and slowly his horrified face looked up to his brothers'. Arya, meanwhile, could not care less about the trouble they were in for.

"What are we going to do?!"

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[info]oros
2010-11-15 09:59 pm UTC (link)
It all happened in slow motion for Terin. He saw Arya jump from his arms and watched as the pie slid from the counter. He moved to catch it, but it felt like he was being weighed down. He just wasn't fast enough. Time returned to his normal speed when the baked good hit the floor and Arya let out an excited giggle. He didn't know what to do as she got down from the counter and immediately began playing in the mess.

Sellion scoffed at his brother's question and shook his head, holding his arms up in the air innocently. "I'm not in this," he said, turning from the scene of the crime and heading towards the back room.

Terin gaped at his older brother's back and, for the first time in a long time, stood up to him. "Sellion Oros! You know this is just as much your fault as it is any of ours! You took the pie from the sill!" he said in a hushed whisper so's not to alarm his mother with shouting.

At the door, Sellion stopped and turned around, a devious grin on his face. "Oh I did, did I? Prove it. If I shut myself in this room, mother won't think anything of it," he said, grinning triumphantly.

Terin was tired of getting in trouble for his siblings adventures. He didn't intend to take the fall for this one. "Why you little..." he started, clenching his hands into tight fists to keep himself from exploding. Suddenly he crouched down a bit before taking off at his older brother. It only took him a few seconds to reach the boy, and when he did he wrapped his arms around him, taking him to the ground. The two boys wrestled for a moment on the ground, rolling into the table a few times and evening hitting a wall. They didn't throw punches at one another, but the scuffle sure made enough noise to compensate for it.

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[info]arya_oros
2010-11-18 05:30 pm UTC (link)
Haldir couldn't believe Sell was just going to walk off like that! He was of half a mind to join Terin in his attempt to bring their brother down a peg, but he glanced out the window and saw Partha finishing her conversation with the merchant at the grocery stall. She was due back inside at any moment, and Arya was still sitting happily on the ground, smearing the blueberry filling around on the floor as well as taking time to lick her hands.

He quickly scooped her up, her protests loud and punctuating to the fighting noises coming from the other two Oros children. He threw her in the tub of water meant for the dishes, trying to wash off the blue as quickly as possible - the water instantly saturated with the color, and the little blond girl pouted and cried about being dumped into a vat of semi-hot water.

He grabbed her out of the water, still sopping wet and dripping, her hair stuck full of bits of blueberry and her mouth was absolutely dyed with the color, and held her out in front of himself as he turned to yell at his two brothers. "Maker, this...just...Terin! Sellion! That is really not helping!!"

Unheard, Partha had heard all of the commotion and headed back to the house. She stood in the doorway that led into the living room, viewing the scene - her two eldest fighting the floor, the youngest sopping wet and dripping while her older brother held her up like laundry to dry. She put a hand to her face in shock, her blue eyes wide as she glanced behind Haldir and Arya to see the remnants of the pie on the floor.

After a moment, she started to laugh uproariously.

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[info]oros
2010-11-21 03:42 pm UTC (link)
Haldir yelling at the two boys did nothing. Terin only had one thing in mind, to make Sellion stay in the room to take some of the heat with them, and Sellion only had one thought; get out. It wasn't until they heard their mother start laughing that they stopped mid-scuffle and stared up at her in wide eyed shame.

"Mom!" Sellion said, scrambling to his feet, brushing off the dirt he and Terin had stirred up in their fight. "I tried to stop them, I really did..." he started, backing away from Terin and Haldir.

Terin, still on the floor, just shook his head and glared over at his older brother. "Stop lying, Sellion," he spat, turning to look up at their mother. "Arya didn't want to wait for pie," he said, as if that explained everything. In his mind, it really did. When that little girl wanted something, she usually got it. No one could resist her cute faces.

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[info]arya_oros
2010-11-24 05:40 pm UTC (link)
Partha pressed a hand to her mouth to calm the laughter. Her eyes went from Sellion to Terin, and then back to her youngest. It seemed that it would be up to her to set this to rights, which she had absolutely no problem with at all.

Striding into the room, she took the sopping wet Arya from her brother and settled the wet toddler on her hip, uncaring that her skirt was instantly saturated. "Is that so. And her brothers were being gallant in helping her? How did the pie end up on the floor?"

Haldir was wiping his hands on his pants, glancing to his brothers and then back at their mother. Arya, meanwhile, was still upset about being wet but much happier to be being held normally instead of hanging from someone's arms.

"Pie, Mama, pie!" She insisted, motioning to the kitchen. Partha shook her head.

"No, missy, you're getting a bath. What a shame that the pie was ruined before your father came home. Sellion, I want you to run over to Aellem's, perhaps she's got one she's willing to part with. Tell her about the occasion. Terin, Haldir, I'd like you two to get to work cleaning up the kitchen before your father gets home - I'm going to try and get your sister looking presentable." She looked over her children, a smile gracing her pretty features. It seemed she was never able to leave them alone for long without some sort of mischief occurring, and Arya was usually at the center of it.

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[info]oros
2010-11-25 02:45 am UTC (link)
At his mother's question of how the pie ended up on the floor, Sellion cast a shameful flance down at the floor, kicking at it with his the toe of his foot. He was saved from having to answer by Arya, who very excitedly demanded more pie. He couldn't help but laugh at her antics, though as soon as his father was mentioned, he frowned once more. He hadn't even thought about what Arandur would say about all this.

Without arguing, Sellion jumped at the chance to get out of the house, even if it was to go to Aellem's. He didn't have any qualms with the woman, he just found her sort of odd. But he'd do just about anything to get out right about now. "Yes ma'am," he said, skirting around her and out the door.

At Partha's next request, Terin exchanged a sidelong glance with Haldir, sighing heavily but nodding nonetheless. "Yes mama," he said, moving to pick up the dish the pie had been resting in. Though he couldn't blame his brother's entirely for whatever repercussions came from this, he could blame them partly. And he intended to do just that. If they had listened to what he had said in the first place none of them would be in this situation. It wasn't all their fault, he amended, glancing up at his mother as she worked to clean up his little sister. Arya was too cute for her own good sometimes.

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[info]arya_oros
2010-11-26 07:32 pm UTC (link)
Haldir returned his brother's glance - wasn't this how it always went? Arya dragged them into something, and somehow always came out unscathed. Well, she did hate baths, but that was a lot less worse than having to clean up blueberry filling from the floor. Haldir knew that the only thing going through his brother's mind was that they should have listened to him, that none of this would have happened...because it was the same thing Terin thought or said every time things like this happened. And yet they kept happening, regardless. Sometimes Arya was just too persuasive with those big blue eyes and little voice. Haldir would never begrudge her her manipulations, instead just as happy with his home the way it was.

"Well, let's get started..." He said mock-cheerfully. Their father was due home soon, the sun near to setting outside. He did miss being at the carpenter's shop - he felt better when he had things to do with his hands - but there was a bit of excitement growing in his stomach, anticipation for his father's arrival. Not that he didn't see the elf nearly every day, but it was there none the less. In the kitchen, it wasn't that bad (or so he told himself) - the vat of water for washing dishes would have to be dumped out and refilled, and a good majority of the floor (and some of the wall) was covered with blueberry filling. Lucky it wasn't a big floor to begin with. Haldir went to the sink, skirting around the mess, and grabbed some wet cloths for wiping. He tossed one to Terin, making sure to give some sort of noise to alert him instead of smacking his brother in the face.

Meanwhile, Partha took Arya out back where another tub was set up, setting the girl in it while she grabbed a few pails of water from a nearby well. Sooner than expected, she had the little girl sitting in suds and clean - the woman had quite a bit of experience with quickly cleaning small children, what with the three who had come before this one. Although most of them really couldn't hold a candle to their sister, which Partha was certain was not something to brag about.





((OOC: Hey, do you want to write Arandur into this? And then we can cap it, since I think once he gets home and they get the festivities going, we can call it a close. Like, maybe one more post from each of us?))

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[info]oros
2010-11-27 10:39 pm UTC (link)
Terin caught the towel his younger brother threw at him and knelt down on the floor. Before he started wiping at the blue mess there, he sat back on his knees and looked at his brother. "Why don't you start on the filling on the walls?" he suggested, pointing to the blue drips on their walls that were slowly slipping to the floor.

Grimacing slightly, he began scrubbing the floor. The filling came up rather easily, so clean up was a pretty quick task. Terin had a majority of the mess on the floor cleaned up when Sellion returned home. "One of Aellem's blueberry pies," he said, coming in the door and setting it on the center of the table, as out of Arya's reach as he could manage.

Terin looked up at him and nodded once. "How about you dump the dish water?" he directed, nodding towards the tub by the window.

Without any fighting, Sellion went to the tub and lifted it, carrying out the back to dump and refill the water. No more than a moment after Terin finished cleaning the floor, the front door opened and their father walked in. At the same instant, Sellion came back in with the refilled tub and placed it back. "Welcome home, father!" he said, smiling at the man.

"I see you boys are busy helping your mother. Good," he said with a nod, coming up to his oldest son and embracing him. "Thank you all for helping out," he said, releasing Sellion and moving to Terin. He hugged his father as well, tossing the dirty rag into the tub.

( works for me! )

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[info]arya_oros
2010-12-05 03:11 am UTC (link)
Haldir got to work on the walls, glad that the pie was new enough that its mess was coming up easily. Between the two industrious boys, the kitchen was soon restored to its usual cleanliness. Most rooms in their small shack weren't much to look at, but Partha managed to do her best to make the space their home. He glanced up from his work to see Sellion set the fresh pie on the counter, glad that they'd have something to celebrate Arya's birthday with. Well, it was partially a thought of getting to have pie at all, but he truly was glad that they'd have something to mark the occasion.

He heard Arandur's entrance, and a smile appeared on his face. Once the refilled tub appeared, he tossed his own nearly dyed blue rag into the basin; the day certainly hadn't passed uneventfully. Haldir joined his brothers in welcoming their father home in the living room - he threw his arms around the elder elf, happy to have the whole family at home. The living space grew smaller, but it was filled with sound and laughter and life. "We're doing our best, Papa," he replied, glancing at his two elder brothers to see if either of them would out them all to the disaster that had occurred not too long ago.

Their mother saved them from any explanation, reappearing at that moment with a clean and dressed Arya on her hip. "Welcome home, love. I hope you're ready to eat," she said, walking up to her husband to give him a kiss. Arya bounced on her mother's hip, reaching for her father.

"Pie, Papa, pie! Pie floor," she said, frowning deeply. Partha intervened.

"Well done with the kitchen, boys. Why don't you set the table? Haldir, cutlery, Sellion, glasses, and Terin, plates, please." Once the boys were off on their tasks, she handed Arya to her father and the girl promptly wrapped her arms around her father's neck. "Don't be too mad at them, but they managed...no doubt with Arya's help...to smear pie all over the kitchen. We'll have one of Aellem's pies for dessert." She rested a hand on Arandur's arm, looking at her husband lovingly.

"I'm just glad we're all here, especially for such a special occasion," and she looked to her baby, putting her other hand on Arya's golden curls.

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[info]oros
2010-12-05 09:45 pm UTC (link)
Terin held his breath lightly as he waited to see what topic came up during the slightly awkward silence. But soon after, Partha returned with Arya on her hip and Terin could let out his breath. He moved away from his father and youngest brother, as did Sellion, and loitered around the table, just kind of staring at it. The were both hoping the incident from earlier wasn't mentioned. Terin cringed slightly when Arya said 'pie floor' and looked away, praying to the Maker that Arandur didn't think anything of it.

It wasn't that their father was an abusive man, its just that he could be very stern. But he didn't have long to think about it as his mother set him and his brother's on the task of setting the table. Sellion quickly went to the cupboard that held their drinkware and pulled out four glasses, the most he could carry at one time, setting them on the table before going back for one more. Terin was right behind him, grabbing the appropriate amount of plates before returning to the table with them and setting them in their respective places.

Arandur watched as his sons busied themselves with their tasks and listened to his wife. If at first he was upset with them, that was quickly calmed by Partha's touch. He turned his attention to her and returned her smile. She was right. It didn't matter that they'd made a mess. At least they'd all cleaned it up and everyone was alright. "Of course, love," he said agreeingly. He placed his hand on top of Partha's and kissed his daughter on the forehead before kissing his wife as well. He turned to look at the rest of his family, a smile still on his face and nodded. "Well, what are you all waiting for? Let's celebrate!" he said with a light laugh.

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