"Ma…What the hell is this?"
"Welllll…. You could call them helpers and sightseers?" Nyx smiled innocently in the hopes that she could disarm her son.
Malachi folded his arms and leaned back into the couch next to Aubrey.
It didn't work.
"Helpers? Sightseers??" Aubrey questioned.
"W-Well their father is a friend of mine, and they wanted to stretch their legs from their lands a bit, so he entrusted them to my care.
A-And since they were here I asked if they would not mind working only as stationary security for the base and they accepted!"
Behind Nyx, the trio of Tathat siblings nodded in confirmation.
"Who is their father? I didn't know you had friends." Aubrey asked.
Nyx felt like she had sohow just been made fun of. story by m|v_l,e,m,p,y,r
"Y-You'll et him later if the fates are kind. He can't really move around as freely as these three."
"?" Aubrey and Malachi tilted their heads in unison.
"A-Anyway, just know that they are only here to help…" Nyx said as she stared at Malachi. "…Are you upset with for ddling?"
Mal recalled he and Aubrey's earlier conversation in painful detail, and the answer to her question ca easily to him.
"No… I'm grateful to you for trying to help, Ma. Thank you… but are you absolutely sure that these three can be trusted?"
The eyes of the brothers narrowed, anwhile the sister continued to glance about the room in wonder.
'This is a cool place… I should decorate my own inner world a little better.' She thought.
anwhile, Nyx easily waived away his concerns.
"Yes, they are a trustworthy sort who understand the aning of integrity. Dragons so rarely have the appetite for treachery."
"…"
"…"
"""""…Dragons?!"""""
Malachi glanced over his shoulder where Aisha, Serana, and lanie were all peeping around the corner like small rodents.
Evidently, they were as shocked by the news as anyone.
Though Nyx sighed in disappointnt. "Honestly, you didn't know? Two of them have horns on their heads."
"I thought they were demons.."
"Sex demons…"
"Oh… well they are that as well, but you should really learn the difference between dragons and demons' horns. It might save you a lot of hassle in the future."
Aubrey let her eyes wander to the top of Thea's head, and she noticed her obvious lack of bony appendages.
"Umm… I don't an to be rude but, .. how co you don't have horns, Thea?"
The golden haired girl seed to be positively delighted by the sound of her na coming out of Aubrey's mouth and she lit up like a Christmas tree.
"Unlike the rest of my siblings I was born human, and to better deepen relations between my people and humanity, my father lets stay this way. Though I still would not say that I'm exactly 'normal'…"
'You certainly are not…' Everyone in the room who could see Thea was either jealous of her or wanted to sleep with her.
Aisha was both.
"Ah, your people…? Does that an you are so kind of royalty?" Aubrey asked.
"…" All three siblings turned their heads away and began whistling inconspicuously.
Now more than ever, the Saint siblings were monuntally concerned about exactly why these three were here in the first place.
"I… don't get it. Why would the children of so kind of king co to earth to sightsee when the entire place is in ruins?"
"I don't know about ruins…" Thea began. "The parts that I have seen so far are incomparably beautiful."
Everyone in the room could see Thea staring at Aubrey without an ounce of hidden interest or appreciation.
Causing the young woman's ears to get hot and forcing her to look away out of reflex.
Aisha suddenly leapt over the couch to Aubrey's defense and tried to stave off Thea's advances.
"H-Hey, I don't know what kind of princess you are but you can't flirt with my girlfriend right in front of like that!"
Thea took a mont to blink away her surprise before her smile beca as wide as a Cheshire cat's.
"I'm sorry… I had no idea that you two were already in a relationship… Do you think you could have any room in your hearts for ?"
Complete, and utter, silence.
Mal's mouth fell open.
Nyx felt jealous.
Belloc and Apophis rolled their eyes.
And Aisha tried to stop her entire face from turning red.
"I… we…"
"I'm sorry." Aubrey suddenly stood up and lowered her head respectfully.
"Truthfully, I don't really think Aisha and I are in the place to be starting things with soone else right now. I hope you can understand."
With Thea left stunned, Aubrey grabbed Aisha by the hand and the two of them left Mal's quarters rather quickly.
Nyx glanced at Thea to see how she would be taking such a firm rejection and maybe capitalize on an opportunity to play 'shoulder to cry on'.
However, upon inspection she found that Thea's smile was just as blindingly radiant as before.
No, in fact it was even brighter.
Nyx even waived her hand in front of Thea's face to snap her out of her giddy state, but it was to no avail.
"Boys?"
""Hm?""
"Is your sister the kind of woman who enjoys won who play hard to get?"
""Uh-huh.""
"Interesting… Does your father also share this dispo-"
""No.""
"Damnit… On an unrelated note, care to tell about this baby situation back ho?"
Belloc's face lit up and he started to pull out his phone, but stopped at the last second. "Wait a minute… are you going to try to take advantage of him?"
"Probabl- I an, no."
Belloc slipped his phone back onto his pocket and ignored Nyx as if she weren't even there.
"Well, since the introductions are out of the way…" Apophis walked over to Serana who was still wearing his jacket and boldly took her hand.
"Would you mind giving a tour? I'm interested in seeing all that this place has to offer."
Serana's eyes beca glossy all over again and the words in her brain beca all jumbled and ssy.
"I-I-I-I think do that I can..!"
Apophis laughed lodically as he gently led the sowhat ditzy girl towards the elevator.
lanie followed behind them, expecting to head to bed for the night when suddenly Belloc slipped into the elevator with them and took her completely by surprise.
Finally beginning to catch on, Mal turned back towards his mother with an exhausted look on his face.
"So when you said that they ca here to sightsee you ant…"
"Uh-huh."
"…Is every dragon like that?"
"Only the best ones!"
Malachi sighed as he stood up to handle tonight's lingering business.
For now, he would get the rescued into the dical ward and the prisoners into the makeshift jail downstairs.
Though these weren't enviable tasks, he was almost certain they would be the last monts of quiet he received for the foreseeable future.
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