“Just like with Feral and Alison, we shall see.”
~~~
It seemed like all at once the kids started gravitating toward their mothers, yawning and whining, obviously tired from the day’s activities.
“Ladies, we do have several options available for you for tonight. First, those of you who’ve been assigned rooms will of course still have those rooms. We do have a home that’s been offered temporarily for some of you to use — it has two bedrooms and is available for anyone who might want to stay there immediately. It is fully furnished, and again is being offered temporarily. There is another option that is available for anyone who might be interested. The person who owns it will be there, but she has two extra bedrooms she’s generously offered if you’d like to take her up on it. If none of these options appeal to you for tonight, you are welcome to spend the night with us in our home again, just as you did last night. So that you know, the males of your Pride have been given quarters with some of our unmated males and are already rotating in and out of security patrols.
As I explained earlier, we do have several brand new cabins, and more that will soon be available. The problem is that only three are furnished at this point and available for immediate use. We only just finished building them before you arrived. But I did get a chance today to place orders for the basics the others will need, bedding, curtains, pots and pans and such, and the guys will be going to make pickups of everything we ordered and distribute it all between the remaining cabins tomorrow. Until those items are received and in place in the new cabins, you might be more comfortable here. You are of course welcome to stay here indefinitely, but we do have the other options for you if you’d like to take advantage of them.”
“I would be interested in a place for my Griffin and me, maybe with the lady who has extra bedrooms available?” Maeve said.
“That’s me!” Alison said. “I’d be happy to have you.”
“Thank you. I’m Maeve. This is Griffin.”
“Hi,” Alison said.
“You live in a big house all by yourself?” Feral asked.
Alison nodded as she looked up at him.
“Does anybody bother to check on you?”
“We’re safe here. It’s not necessary.”
“But it is,” Feral said.
“It’s okay. It really is. And I go to work every day, and they’d notice if I didn’t show up.”
Feral sighed, and realized he was jumping into places emotionally that he wasn’t yet invited into.
A couple of the ladies who’d spent the night on the floor the previous night spoke quietly between themselves, then one of them raised their hand. “We would be interested in the temporary housing. There are five of us altogether; two adults, three kids. I’m not sure if there is somewhere for someone else tosleep in the living room, but someone else could take the living room if they’d like to.”
“It’s just got a sofa in the living room. There are only beds in the bedrooms,” Vance said. “It’s my brother’s place. But the sofa is comfortable.”
“Okay, well at least a few more are settled. Decide among yourselves, who’s going to take the three new homes that are ready, they have either two or three bedrooms, and can house more than one family. And then everyone else can stay here until tomorrow.”
“Thank you, Reigna, for making sure we are all taken care of,” Maeve said. “I am grateful for your hospitality.”
“You’re welcome. If anyone needs anything I haven’t thought of, please don’t hesitate to let me know. I know it’s a little jumbled, but we’ll get it all sorted out in the next few days,” Bonnie said.
Having offered her home for anyone who might want to take advantage of her offer of hospitality, Alison walked back over to where she and Feral had shared dinner, to grab her towel. She picked up her empty water bottle and looked around to see if anybody else had left anything near there, her gaze went to the plates and napkins that Titus and Hail had not yet disposed of. She picked them up and added them to everything she already held.
“I’m gonna get that!” Hail called out from the pool where she and Titus floated on the same raft but on opposite sides.
“I already got it,” Alison said.
“Thank you, girl,” Hail said.
“You’re welcome,” Alison said, flashing her a smile as she started back toward the house where the garbage cans were.
“Hey, did I hear right? You still have a room available?”
“I do. And even if I didn’t, my sofa folds out into a sleeper. Why? You looking for a room?”
“I’m not really looking forward to spending the night on the ground.”
“Consider yourself booked for the night,” Alison said. “If you don’t feel like going now, you can ask anybody, they can point you to it.”
