Broken Antler Fen hope

for the family! have presumed everyone is gathered up for this. :)

They were small and perhaps they wouldn't understand, but Eljay knew that Ibis' children deserved the truth: their mother wasn't coming back. With some effort, he and @Maia had gathered @Jasmine, @Roswell and @Diantha as well as @Sylvie and @Hymnal. He knew that Sylvie and Hymnal would be too young to truly understand what was going on, but maybe some of it would stick. Eljay second-guessed his decision to include his own children in this as he and Maia settled down before them, nerves flitting in his stomach. What if the other three responded badly? But then again, they were a family now; all of them. It wouldn't do to try and shield Sylvie and Hymnal from this.

Before they could begin, Diantha had be pulled off Roswell a few times, who she was constantly pestering. He clearly had enough of it, but she kept going; probably because it earned her attention from Eljay and Maia who would fuss trying to get her to stop it. Eljay'd only ever dealt with two children at once, and he felt very out of his waters on this. Especially because they were Ibis' children...

Finally the children settled down and Eljay shared as he looked at Ibis' three: We wanted to let you know — all four of us — he gestured at Sylvie and Hymnal as well as Maia, even though Sylvie and Hymnal were too little to really agree on anything; — we want to welcome you into our family. Your mother, she... She went to sleep, uhm, he knew using 'sleep' wasn't the best, but Eljay didn't know how else to say it, She won't come back. Her body sleeps nearby in the Fen, under the ground, so we can still visit her, but we won't be able to talk to her anymore. We'll take care of you and we'll all be a family together, from now on. Eljay felt like he was totally flunking on bringing the news in any good way. Nervously, he watched the faces of the three children, while he kept a welcoming and open smile on his own face.