Monday night at Nell and Gladio's

[mylandmyrules]

After work Nell headed home to get things ready for the evening. She thought simpler was better, both in case there were children and in case people chose to stay home with their children instead.

It would be easy enough to throw together an extra simple pasta bake or plain noodles to go with the fresh bread she'd made. And, of course she had plenty of cookies and brownies.

If she was perhaps a little quieter than usual, well, there were a number of things occupying her mind.

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[deathsmajesty]

"You're very quiet," Liliana couldn't help but notice. What with how Irrim had suddenly swapped from 'can't get away from you fast enough' to 'suddenly underfoot.' "Do you not want to play with the other children?"

[blueblackbrat]

Irrim gave her mother an irritated glance. "They're children," she pointed out.

And Irrim was a very adult thirteen. Obviously. Yet another reason for her to be standing over here, with the grownups.

"That doesn't explain why you're so quiet."

Irrim flushed and looked a little pugnacious. "I've never done this before. Met...your friends. Socially."

[deathsmajesty]

"Ah," Liliana said, voice softening. "Would you like an introduction then? I am sure that everyone would be pleased to meet you albeit handwavily, since we probably don't want to break L's brain."

Irrim gave the shrug of I'm a teen so obviously I'm too cool to care but yes, actually, I would like that a lot.

"All right," Liliana said, leading her over to Summer to begin with. "Summer, I'd like to introduce you to Irrim, who came to visit this weekend..."

And yes. Everybody would be kind and welcoming to the girl, or Liliana would do something drastic. Sure, she didn't expect otherwise, but she was surprised to discover the feeling existed anyway.

Huh. Time to completely not examine that.