the pookas

[instar]

The following day, Bella goes with Trouble, when he heads for the park.

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[aeskhyne]

Snuggly ones.

[megale]

And prolooooonged makeouts. Until Rhea checks the clock and says her dad is due home soon.

[aeskhyne]

"Aww," says Trouble. "Okay, I better go." He kisses her one more time, then scoots away to morph - pigeon, since it's still light out.

[megale]

Rhea picks him up and opens the window and sets him loose out into the sky. "Bye, Iago."

[aeskhyne]

<Bye, Rhea! I love you!>

Back to the Swan place he goes.

[instar]

At it, there are Swans. Bella is talking to her dad about what he has picked up from staking out the pool entrance.

[aeskhyne]

Trouble demorphs and finds a bit of couch to flop on. He looks really happy.

[instar]

"Hello, Trouble."

[aeskhyne]

"Hi! What's up?"

[instar]

"Nothing best noted for its novelty. How's Rhea?"

[aeskhyne]

"Rhea continues to be awesome," he says, hugging himself. "And pretty good at undercover - somebody came by wanting to know why she was cuddling a pigeon and she handled him without acting weird or anything."

[instar]

"An admirable save from the situation of public pigeon cuddling. We'll have her turned into a pooka ninja in no time."

[aeskhyne]

He gets up and walks out of the room.

[pandion]

The next room contains Andi and Renée.

[aeskhyne]

He keeps going.

[alicornucopia]

Unless he heads for the garage, the house is otherwise empty.

[aeskhyne]

An empty room sounds pretty great to him right now.

[instar]

After about an hour, Bella comes looking for him.

[aeskhyne]

He's tucked into a corner of Renée's bedroom closet, sitting on the floor between some things and some other things.

[instar]

"Do you want to talk?"

[aeskhyne]

"Sure," he says.

[instar]

"I apologize for being sarcastic at you."

[aeskhyne]

"Thanks," he says. "By the way, I needed a nickname for you, so now Rhea knows you as Titania."

[instar]

"Okay."

[aeskhyne]

Trouble sits quietly.