Super-Happy Fun Time! [Greenie][Fin]

[Bee]

It was a sad fact of life that Iphis did not get to see any of his numerous nieces and nephews nearly as much as he would like (which was a shame, because he appeared to be the only member of his family who enjoyed the company of children, for some reasons that Iphis simply could not fathom, because who didn't love kids?), so when the opportunity arose to spend a little more time with Ira's offspring, he had leaped at the chance.

The house reminded him immediately and fondly of home, except in a nicer neighborhood so there likely were not as many crime issues. It was big, old, a little shambling...it gave him many warm and fuzzy feelings. He hoped it looked like this on the inside, too.

He about skipped up to the door and gave it a cheerful knock.

It was baby time.

[Greenie]

When Saethre told them they were going to be spending the day with their Uncle Iphis, both Marigold and Lilac simply blinked at her until she explained that he was the 'pale one with fuzzy things on him', at which point they both lept around the room screaming in an excited manner.

So when Iphis knocked on the door, it was less than a second before it flew open, and he was tackled immediately by a small black-and-purple otter, followed more sedately by the equine mix. "UNCLE IPHIS!!!" Lilac shouted in his ear, then began petting one of his feelers gently, mostly to see if it would come off if she poked at it enough.

"Good morning, Uncle!" Marigold said, smiling up at him from her position at his feet. "How was your journey over here? Did you see the bovine that lives across the street?" She inquired, wanting to tell him her story about how the bovine nearly fell on their brother and smushed him.

[Bee]

The joys of being mauled by children were vastly underrated, in his opinion, and he quite happily let himself be set upon by this purple army of two, even when Lilac started yelling and prodding. One bright pink feeler twitched and batted at her, but its efforts to be left alone were largely in vain.

"Nah, it was a pretty easy trip over here," he said cheerfully. "I didn't see any bovines...Why are you curious about bovines?"

Not that he had been paying much attention to anything going on around him, really. Iphis tended to drift off into a happy dreamy space when he was walking, unless he had someone with him to distract him. On the bright side, this meant that he was constantly amused and in an impenetrable good mood; on the downside, he occasionally walked into street lamps and nearly got run over by carriages.

[Greenie]

Lilac was taken aback when the feeler poked back at her, but she immediately got her revenge by nomming on it. It wasn't particularly tasty, but damned if she was going to let some fuzzy pink thing get the best of her!

Marigold huffed briefly at his lack of sight, but quickly smiled and pointed across the street. "There's this great big huge heifer-lady person that lives over there. I think she's a Yarrow but I can't really tell, but so many ladies go over there all the time! I think they're having a tea party, do you think cows have tea parties Uncle Iph? ANYWAYS, so she was walking down the street right, and all the sudden Donovan - You can't call him Donny by the way, he gets mad, always Donovan - well he went out in the street to get a ball he'd thrown and all the sudden the cow lady was just there and she nearly fell on him!" She paused to scrunch up her face, not seemingly out of breath in the slightest. "Would he have died, Uncle?"

Lilac ignored her sister's rambling, her concentration on the fun game of pounce-and-bite with the feeler.

[Bee]

It was a little difficult to concentrate on the story when there was an otter crawling all over him and nibbling at his feeler, but he kept up as best he could whilst absently swatting at Lilac. So full of energy, children! Would Saethre notice if she were suddenly missing a couple? ...Likely. And Kidnapping Was Bad. Still, was it his fault that the sight of little kids was making his ovaries tingle covetously?

"Probably," he said, thoughtfully. "I don't recommend getting sat on by a cow. Cows are very large. He might have escaped with just a couple dozen broken bones, though, and that's nothing a good doctor can't fix!"

Unless there was organ damage...With a squish like that there was likely to be organ damage...Would an exploded spleen lead to death? He had no idea. Better to ask Elyse or Mom or someone more competent with healing people.

[Greenie]

Lilac batted the feeler vigorously, only to have it fall out of her reach.. and not bounce back up. Alarmed, she scrambled off his shoulder and onto his head, then happily resumed playing with it, oblivious to the fact that a child-size otter was probably heavy.

Marigold was more polite - she was only sitting on his foot. "Well," She said in the headstrong manner of a child, "I didn't want him to get squished, I was only asking what would have happened if he got squished." She humphed, and ignored him for two seconds before getting bored. "Unnncclleeeeeee! Are you going to take us somewhere to play, please? It's really boring here. Mama takes care of the other kids and tells us to be good and then the other kids eat our toys."

[Bee]

Well, that wasn't very nice, was it? Gnawing on other kids' toys. They deserved to have fun...Maybe he could steal them away. Not forever, of course! Just to go out and do something. Parks. Ice cream. Shopping. Barhopping. Well, scratch that last one. Iphis didn't even likes bars really and he was mildly worried about what havoc these two children might wreak amongst the drunken.

"Weeeell," he said, eying the door surreptitiously and then looking back to the kids, "where would you like to go...? Hmm, let's get out first and then we'll decide."

He scribbled out a note in case someone returned and wondered where the children had poofed off to. Took kids out for fun times! Don't worry! Back later! Kisses! Iphis. Huh. There were an awful lot of exclamation points in that note. Oh well. He stuck it on the counter.

"Okay! Jail break times."