24th moon [It is a 4th, and it is a wall]

[vibrafinal]

[Today, on the roof of house 9, there is a Cecil. A Cecil that is quite possibly staring at you, wondering where you came from, and pondering whether to invite you in for lunch. Bother?]

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[paladinlost]

...Baby. Yours and Ursula's baby.

[Slowly but surely rebooting, but it might still take a while.]

[lastoftheredwings]

Yes, that's right.

[Sweet holy Crystals, please let's not be back at the heated arguing about duty and responsibility and 'ruling monarchs of separate kingdoms cannot marry' because Ceodore reeeeeeeally does not want to have that fight again.

...but he will if he has to.]

[paladinlost]

[Well yes, there is that small issue that might cause trouble for both lines of successions, unless there are sufficient heirs to cover them all and some very strict rules to define who can inherit what, and then- Oh, who cares. Grandkids!

...Grandkids and fatherly hugs, as a matter of fact.]

[lastoftheredwings]

[Miracle of miracles, Ceodore not only does not squirm away from the hug, but even returns it. He's frightfully proud of his wife, after all, not to mention relieved that there wasn't explosive anger at the news... considering he's starting to realize that his father's known nothing of what they've been through.]

Mother's driving her batty with her fluttering and fussing.

[Ceodore is too, though he won't admit it. There is not a damned thing wrong with him protecting the both of them, no matter how much Ursula gripes at him to quit.]

[paladinlost]

Of course she has. Future grandmothers have their traditions and duties.

[While grandfathers get to go 'grandkidsgrandkidsgrandkids' both inwardly and outwardly. He's quite happy with his lot, really.]

[lastoftheredwings]

I suppose so.

I miss Grandmother so much.

[And not just because she was a dispenser of snuggles and cookies when he was a bitty. Although yes maybe that's some of it. It just feels wrong to grow the family and have her left out of the loop.]

I still don't understand how you're there and here.

[Not really fair to deprive Dad of grandpa time either.]

[paladinlost]

[And that's probably the one subject that could make him let go before the hour mark.]

...I do not quite understand it either, but it's not so surprising. I was told that I am the fourth 'me' to live in this world, yet I remember no previous stays.

[He still doesn't quite get how that works.]