Neverwinter Forest against warmth embrace

Man it was awkward to come in in the middle of a conversation. That was also because he'd said nothing about any of the litters he'd fathered to anyone else -- well, Aibreann know about Cupid, though he wasn't sure if the reverse was true. It only now became kind of a realization that maybe he should have done that before. Oops? Little late now. Well. She still wasn't talking to him, seemed like, but hey, a nod at least!

But Caerus was here, so he kind of needed to make sure his son didn't get into crazy amounts of trouble or something. But it didn't seem like he was in trouble to start so... He couldn't really be too mad with Caerus, really? Mal still kind of expected some angry shoe to drop though -- he'd still be as positive as possible despite that, Oh, did you? he said as he nuzzled the boy's head, Singing to them sounds nice -- I'm sure they'll love hearing you sing to them until they're big enough to come out to play. Momentary slightly-serious moment though, But look, Caerus, if you want to come over and be the really cool big brother, you gotta do what Miriam says when you're here, okay? She's the boss, so you gotta ask her if it's a good time to visit and stuff. He looked over to her again, wanting some sort of affirmation from her that it sounded good to her. But then that brought up another thought and his eyes snapped back to Caerus, Does your dad know you went for a walk? From his tone, it was probably obvious he was expecting a sheepish 'no,' and since it was Mal talking, it wasn't like he was super angry or anything. He was certainly not a disciplinarian when it came to his son -- he was the one who showed up and brought food and games.

Mal hadn't 100% addressed the fact that yeah, these were the boy's half siblings. He just wanted to make sure that the whole thing was gonna be fun for Caerus. It wasn't like Cupid or Miriam seemed to want him around much (though Miriam was probably now winning the battle of who didn't want him the most) so it wasn't like he was ruining some relationship there. In his world, everyone could just be happy together.