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[ostro_goth]

[[OOM: Screaming babies]]

This is a sight you were never expecting to see.

Teja is sitting by the fireplace, two tiny babies in archaic swaddling in his arms.

They are silent, at the moment, looking at him with big baby-blue eyes.

Teja is waiting for Guppy, but would speak to any other that comes by, also.

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[morethanprops]

Moist is starting to feel better and though he's not in a suit, he's looking quite neat in an elegant sweater with some tweed pants.

He stops and pauses when he sees Teja with two babies, "Are they yours?"

[ostro_goth]

Teja looks up. Ah, the Scot's catamite, the card-cheater.

"No, how could they be?" he says. "I am dead. Dead men may have no children."

[morethanprops]

"Then why do you have them?" They don't seem to fit with Teja.

[ostro_goth]

"They are my Adalgoth's, and I have brought them so Guppy may look at them," Teja says.

[morethanprops]

"But you're dead?"

This really doesn't make any sense, though they are sweet babies.

[ostro_goth]

"Yes, I am," Teja says. "A goddess granted me access to my people's world."

[morethanprops]

"In exchange for what?" Gods always want something.

[mogget_cat]

There is a curious creature, padding along the back of the couch towards Ostrogoths both living and dead.

[ostro_goth]

One of the little living Ostrogoths smiles at the white curious creature, so the dead one turns his head, smiling also.

"Greetings, my friend," he says, quietly, as not to startle the babies with sudden sound.

[mogget_cat]

"Greetings, Teja," says the not'cat, purring as it brushes by the king's head and shoulders. "Who are your young charges?"

[ostro_goth]

"Adalgoth's little twin daughters, who else?" Teja says, smiling at Yrael with genuine happiness. "The one with the dimple in her chin is Valeria, and the one with her fuzzy pale hair sticking up is Myrtia."

[mogget_cat]

Yrael smiles, purring and pleased, as he slinks down the back of the couch to take a closer look. "They are lovely, Teja."

So what if his whiskers somehow accidentally tickle each girl's cheek?

[ostro_goth]

They smile, tiny starfish hands grabbing ineptly for the white fur.

"Oh yes," Teja says. "They are. But usually, they cry much; that is why they are here."

[guppy_sandhu]

"You look very cosy." Guppy says, coming over with a well restrained smirk.

[ostro_goth]

"Those are my Adalgoth's twin babies, that I told you I would bring," Teja says, looking up at Guppy.

"Greetings. You are who I was waiting for."

[guppy_sandhu]

"I suspected as much. Which is which?"

[ostro_goth]

"The one with the dimple in her chin is Valeria, and the one with her fuzzy pale hair sticking up is Myrtia," Teja says, touching each of them gently as he says their names.

[guppy_sandhu]

"Okay, let's take them through to the infirmary to have a check over." Guppy says.

[ostro_goth]

Teja stands, smoothly, with both babes safe and unshaken in his arms.

[licensed-pro.livejournal.com]

"I can honestly say this wasn't something I expected to see here," Charles says, soft-voiced but curious.

[ostro_goth]

"They are my Adalgoth's," Teja says.

[licensed-pro.livejournal.com]

"Odd that you'd use the possessive that way," he says. "How old are they?"

[ostro_goth]

"He is very dear to me," Teja says. "They were born on the day of the dead."

[licensed-pro.livejournal.com]

"So he's here, I assume, if you're babysitting his children," Charles says, taking a seat.

[ostro_goth]

"No," Teja says. "he cannot come through the door; so I took the children to be seen to by Guppy, to make sure all is right with their health. They sometimes cry badly."