Broken Boulder don't look at this if u don't like poop

time slips into routine, away from him, settled somewhere precariously between peaceful and anxious. too quiet is bad, despite it being all delight wants -- better than too noisy, maybe, but still, he doesn't know alarian well enough yet to feel safe in trying to puzzle out these unreadable silences. the chancellor's time is spent occupied by his children, trying to, in some small way, make up for their lack of motherly presence with his own (and boy, that's its own host of feelings he's not really ready to sort out yet). 

things are probably more okay than he expects them to be when you get right down to it.

delight leaves the children with @Eris as he's summoned, curious -- it's not like a, hey come here call, it sounds like official business and how often does that happen -- until he's close enough to see and then his whole face lights up joyously. 

there's a lot of children (okeanos and ibis, he remembers, though the other two he doesn't know) and a pair of women, one of which with an ethereal sort of aura that puts him at ease in the same breath it reminds him of mato, and then there's seabreeze with alarian. the remaining distance between the party and him he closes in a burst of renewed energy, moonsoft eyes switching between seabreeze and alarian as if he can't quite decide who to address first until at last "what are you doing here?" escapes him with an infectious laugh. "um i mean -- seabreeze -- it's -- i'm so glad to see you," he bursts out, though his smile starts to twist  into something anxious as he considers what could have brought them here (and how did they find alarian in the first place?) "is everything okay?" he asks, glancing to his partner and back -- wondering, actually, if he knows that delight knows a third of this little cohort.