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“So, when are you bringing me your mate so I can meet her? You know I hardly go out to the sun anymore. It harms my eyes.” Owa says and her mate looks at her with so much softness, but also pain. Like he wishes he could take it in his own body. Exactly what I would do for Aria.
“Will you not attend our vow ceremony and our welcoming celebration tonight, old orc?”
“I will but I cannot be out for a long time. Even so, everyone will be crowding her for her attention. Bring your human to me so I may bless her.”
“I will bring her tomorrow,” I say.
I spend another hour with them catching up before I leave. I promised Aria to meet her for lunch, but I have some time before then. So, I climb the stairs and head to talk to Zod. I knock on the door. No one answers. I decide to knock next door to Faz and I am not surprised he isn’t there.
Faz is a friendly and open orc. He talks to everyone, and he is always surrounded by female orcs. He cannot stay away from the females. It is absolute luck he hasn’t chosen a mate, otherwise, I don’t know how much she would appreciate that. When I don’t find them, I decide to go find Aria at Mulan’s.
I cross the assembly again, passing the children as they play in the few big trees that were planted here and they run around. In a few months and years that will be my children too. Although my children may be a little different, but they will grow up amongst my people and they will have a piece of their heritage with them.
I climb the stairs to Mulan’s quarters. As I near, I am drawn by noise, and I hear Aria’s voice amongst the laughing ones. I knock.
The voices get lower before I hear footsteps and my uncle’s Bono wife, Hani, appears.
“Prince Imp.” She says. I sense some animosity in her voice. I was beginning to think I was the only sane one who remembers that us and the Bono hate each other.
“It’s just Igor now,” I say, making effort to be friendly.
She moves from the door, and I see Aria sitting down next to Faz and I walk in. She smiles at me. They all smile at her like they are sharing a joke I don’t know.
“Are you ready for lunch?” Aria asks.
“Yes. I am ready.”
“Okay, let me get your pots then.” Mulan rushes to the kitchen.
I stretch my hand to help Aria up. The people in this room chuckle and she rolls her eyes a little.
“Mind sharing the joke, Faz?” I look down at my cousin.
“Nothing, cousin. We were just getting to know your mate here. She is a wealth of wisdom and tricks.” Faz grins widely.
“Definitely full of character too. She is long-suffering indeed.” Hani says.
I turn my glare to her when Aria looks like she wants to hide before I take our containers and we leave. Aria doesn’t say anything on our way to where we are staying. I dish for us and bring it to the bed where she is already sitting.
“So, are you going to tell me what that was about?” I ask when we start eating.
She sighs. “They think I have human powers I use to control you. They wagered on you not being able to stay away from me for long.”
I quip a brow. “That’s all?”
“They told me how that is unusual, and everybody has noticed how much you…dote on me.”
“And that makes you feel ashamed?”
“No,” she says quickly.
“But?”
She looks at me before she sighs again. “It makes me remember how different I am.”
“Did they make you feel uncomfortable?”
“Oh no. They thought it was hilarious. You were more the subject of the jokes than me,” she says.
