Page 46 of Kailirex

“Bye! Love you!” Mom called out.

“Aloha!” Eric and Piloris chorused.

“Aloha!” Pop added just as we said it back.

I ended the comm, then reached over to wipe away a stray tear from my beloved’s face.

“Are you alright? We can go back.”

“I’m more than fine,” she sniffled. “And so is Dad. I mean, I knew they said he would be, but to know he’s there and the nanites are doing their thing and he really is, well, I feel like someone took a huge boulder off of me.”

I nodded in understanding. “Then it will be even better when they send the pictures later.”

“Yeah.” She took a sip of her mai tai. “Mm! This tastes even better now that I’ve heard from them.”

I nodded in understanding. I had only just met them, but I, too, felt a deep connection already forming, intertwined with that of me and my mate. I did indeed feel lighter, despite knowing with unwavering certainty that he would respond well to what was routine throughout the rest of Galactic society.

“So, do you wish to go back as soon as we can after the wedding, or would you like to stay? I could see if Xeranos could book us hotels on all the different islands and then perhaps we could do an island cruise back, taking it all the way to California or Vancouver.”

“Like a honeymoon in advance?”

“Or a ‘get to know you better’ time,” I said. “Though I have no trouble being persuaded in doing honeymoon activities.”

“But what about your obligations with the show?”

“I can have a Mylos datapad sent down, one for each of us. In fact, if you like, and if Xeranos can arrange it, we could invite everyone along.”

It was as if a thousand suns lit up from her smile. ”You’d do that?”

“I’d do anything for you,” I told her.

“Then, yes, let’s. And Mom and I can look at wedding packages together. Would we still be able to go to Europe to get married in a castle?”

“Yes, but we might have to put off our actual honeymoon until after the first season has wrapped.”

“I’m good with that," she said, “especially as we can advance our honeymoon activities a little. Um, how about we do the hotel visits without them, and then they join us on the cruise?” She wiggled her eyebrows suggestively, letting me know exactly why she thought it was a good idea.

“Xeranos!” I said into my comm.

“Yes, Kailirex?”

I quickly explained what we wanted.

“Give me a moment to check the hotel booking systems and with the cruise line.” A few seconds went by. “Yes. I’ve just arranged it all. I’ve notified Piloris that the humans within the party will need to pose for me so I can do a biometric data chip as well as take a photo for their Mylos identification cards. I’ll need to send down a data pad for you so you can use it to do the same for Stella. That way, no one can get the idea that they need a visa, as simply being Mylos gives visa free travel literally everywhere, though I wouldn’t recommend traveling to some locations due to local government policies and political tensions in those regions. Your first stay after the wedding will be on the other side of Oahu. It coincides with Klora and Adrian wedding which has a Hawaii Five-0 theme. He’s invited everyone already here for this wedding to come join them. The meal immediately after is at a shrimp truck that is apparently run by the male whose character on the show ran an identical one.”

“Kamekona!” Stella squealed, bouncing a little in her seat.

“We’ll be there. Stella looks far too excited about the shrimp truck to give that a miss.”

“Da ta da,” she began singing and to my surprise, patrons and wait staff close by began singing it along with her. It then spread like a vocal wave all the way across the bar, growing louder.

“Da da tah!” they finished on a crescendo.

“That was the theme song to the show,” Xernaos informed me.

“I think I shall have to look it up,” I said.

“Woohoo!” she crowed. “Eric and I watched it every week when the reboot first came on. Hey, Xero, can you set us up with an itinerary so we can visit all the places they had cases? Well, easy enough to get to without being a nuisance and notable enough to be a not to be missed place.”