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She stiffened within Flarie's embrace at first before relaxing, wrapping one of her arms around the other woman in return. "I've been around this place for more years than I care to count... But at least you had some sort of baby handling experience with Lana... Even if she wasn't a normal baby. You've still got a one up on me." She chuckled.

"The kid's going to hate this room..."

"Stare at one thing for a long enough period of time and you will..." She chuckled softly, hand moving in order to let fingers run back through her hair. "I had some of the paint sitting around... But, for the most part, I had to go out and get some more. I stopped in town on my way home from visiting with WinK..."

She closed her eyes for a moment, hoping that she wasn't going to end up touching on a tender spot every time the mentioned the angel's name. She really hoped that one day Flarie and WinK could be friends... "You didn't get to help because you were sleeping... None of the kids were allowed in the room either."

"Irvyn's disappeared into his own world again...and Ash wanted to help so I told her to go and draw some pictures of her own." She shook her head slowly. "You're going to have to have a talk with Laire soon, you know. It won't be good for either of you to continue arguing once the baby's here."

"I don't believe he has..." She ran her fingers through her hair once more. A party in her own house and she hadn't even noticed. Hell... She had been off in her own world, hadn't she? "He needs more male interaction. It can't be easy living in a house full of females..."

"Dunno... I wouldn't mind having another girl..." Her soft chuckle gave way to a yawn as she flopped down against the bed, muttering a few more things that couldn't be understood before passing out.

Skye's Thoughts ~ February 27th...

The house has been far too quiet lately. It's a bit unsettling. Irvyn has holed himself up in his new room... Rearranging things and making the necissary changes to make that tower 'his.'

Ash has been spending more and more time with her phoenix, Altair. I suppose that I am to blame for that. I have given her hope that just as her bird is reborn, that perhaps she too can be 'reborn' in a sense... That maybe, just maybe, she can right what was wronged in that fire and regain her voice. She has such high hopes... I couldn't crush them.

I should get back to work... Go and spend some time at the Living Stone. Everything there has gone forgotten about... I don't want to lose intrest in things so easily. I haven't lost intrest in my humble little shop... My mind has just been elsewhere.

If I distract this easily now... What will happen when the baby comes?

I shouldn't be a parent... But it's a little to late for that, isn't it? I won't back out on Flarie now. I told her I'd be there for her and I will.

She muttered something that sounded like 'so? you're up early' around a mouthfull of snickerdoodle. A craving for sugar and cinnamon had urged her to bake earlier and that was the results. Besides... They went well with tea.

Amazing, this was the first thing that she had actually been able to eat for a while now. Her appetite seemed to be returning... It couldn't be all that bad.