Page 23 of Surviving Enchantment: Part two
Nylora smiled when Day-ek asked, “Can you make sure it will scar up bright?I want to make sure Jennor is pissed because he has to wait for all the dignitaries to come to the mansion.Reymark is wearing her bite, I get the scar, and Jennor has to wait for Jennel’s nose ring to get bigger.”
Emily snorted.“I have worked on orcs before.I am actually taking a strip of flesh out for you, Speaker.”
He grinned.“Nice.”
She finished engraving him, sealed the wounds with magic, and then put a wound wrap on it.Non-stick gauze was a wonder.
They had all gotten something done, and Emily was going to have to make a bank run.They had tipped handsomely, even if she did the work on family.
Nylora felt the four marks around her belly, and she smiled.Since the moment she had first discovered her pregnancy, she had been looking forward to holding her baby in her arms.Until this moment, she hadn’t been sure she could go through it and survive.Now, she knew she wasn’t going to be alone.
She rubbed her belly and smiled.
Isocar hugged her and grinned.“Feel better?”
“So much.If Jennel didn’t have to hold Day-ek’s hand, I would hug her, too.”
Dia grinned.“What about me?”
“I have been hugging you off and on all night.I can’t hug Emily while she’s working.”
Emily cleaned up and then stripped off her gloves.“Now you can hug.”
Nylora hugged her and felt the taller woman’s hug in return.
It was after six.Day-ek was off duty, and his team and Jennel’s were waiting in the front room.
More hugs, and in some cases, careful hugs went around, and Day-ek provided the design for Corit for his eighteenth birthday.They would bring him there before any of the clan festivities.It would be an event to remember or forget if you were drinking.
As they all trooped out with Jennor sulking that his official claiming of Jennel had to be a public wedding, another XIA vehicle pulled up.
Emily smiled as Neekil walked toward her.
Nylora chuckled.“You are working on dark elves now?”
“Sure.Why not?He is coming for a test, and his buddies might get cartoon aliens or something.”
All three agents were walking toward the house when the door to the house next door opened, and a young boy bolted out and said, “Emily!Guess what?My head comes off!”
Neekil’s companions stopped, and one turned slowly to watch the child run up to Emily and pull his head off, white-blue flame seared the neck hole, and the head was still talking excitedly.“It happened last night, but it was too late, and Mom said you had a bunch of ladies there, so I should wait, and you aren’t working right now.So, isn’t this neat?”
The boy’s mother came over and grinned.“He’s super proud, but now, we have to go get him registered before school so they can look into training for him.”
Nylora looked at one of the men, who slowly reached up and lifted his own head off, tucking it under his arm.
“The key is to keep a secure grip on it, as your friends at this age will want to kick your head around like a soccer ball.Keeping a grip on it is the first thing you learn.”
The boy’s mother was staring at the Dullahan as he turned so his head was facing her.“Ma’am, where’s his father?”
“There was a friend’s wedding, and I got a little plastered.I found a groomsman, and then nine months and a week later, Jerrik emerged.”
“How long ago?”
“Uh...”
“Was it Terrel and Gennifer’s wedding?”
The woman changed colour and then burst into blue-white flames.
