Page 22 of Surviving Enchantment: Part two
“Thanks.I will start biting.”
Demuel paused.“Sorry.I should have asked.”
“Yup.”She held onto her second one, and Dem-rah walked away, chuckling.
The ladies ate their spicy offering and worked their way through the burn.It was quite the bonding day.
The two-car parade pulled up outside the small house with the modest flower beds and the huge oak shadowing it.As they walked toward it, Emily came out to greet her twin and aunt.Emily was opposite in colouration to Dia.Her skin was chalk white, and her hair was dark brown.
“This is your other aunt, my sister, Isocar.Isocar, this is your other niece, Emily.”
Emily walked up.“Hello, Aunt Isocar.You have a distinct lack of appropriate markings.”
Isocar lit up, her marks blazing under her skin, and Emily blinked.“I stand corrected.Themekor’s work, if I am not mistaken.”
“You are correct.Who does your gardens?”
“My neighbour.She’s a wisp and has a ten-year-old son.They are great neighbours, so I respect them and use plenty of sound-dampening when I need to.They do the gardens and grab fudge when they go out, and I have enough wards around our two properties to defend an invasion.No one even knows they are there until she drives out.”She smiled.“She’s a paramedic, Aunt Nyl.Just like you.”
“What’s her name?”
“I will tell you inside where we will finish introductions.”
They headed inside, and inside the house was huge.Dia grinned.“I am going to call Mom and explain what we are doing.I know she would want to participate.”
Emily nodded.“I can’t contribute because I am setting things up, but yeah, Mom would want to get in on this.”
Isocar and Jennel grinned.A spread draw would be easier and less chance of collapsing one of the support people.
The studio was expansive and pristine, and the ladies settled in while they flipped through pages filled with flash or scar designs for luck, love, and the tattoo for birth control.It was easy to fade on demand.
The design for the community protections for Nylora was there, and when everyone was on board and a small vial of the twins’ mother’s blood had appeared, Emily got to work.
Chapter Four
Jennel looked at herarm band with its wrapping to make sure it would scar up, and she held Day-ek’s hand as he was marked as married to her.
