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I'll tell you a story that'll make a skeleton cry - Vasili - 5/11/2026

Backdated to roughly the 8th

Home.

Vasi knew he would be fine from the moment Neph found him there beside the violet flame, but the journey had been grueling. Painful. He was thankful they'd been able to find some herbs to treat his wounds with, to take the edge of the pain, though personally the Pharaoh was simply eager to get home and have a nice, long, relaxing soak in the hot springs with one of his stashes. He hoped things were in order -- that the kids had found their way home to Valkyrie's protection, and Creole was taking care of things.
It was all he could do to rush home as quickly as his leg allowed him. It didn't matter if it hurt or he did more damage, and he didn't care what Neph had to say about it. He had stolen too much time from their preparation already; not that they had to search out a home or a den, this time, but he loathed the fact that once again they were out and about when the Saxe matriarch was ready to give birth. Neph deserved to lounge about and have a chance to enjoy being pampered while she was growing their litter, not save the fucking world! Not drag him back home; have to take care of him, in a way she'd never had to before that made him angry. He kept her from doing so as often as he could. He'd starve or figure out a way to feed himself before he depended on his very fucking pregnant wife.

And man. If he thought she'd been fat last time? Whoooooooo boy, she must've been carrying a dozen little brats in there this time around!

If he did manage to catch anything, it usually went to her. Whatever he could do, he would. He did.

But thank heaven and hell and everything in between, not even the horrific sting of the salt water didn't dampen his gladness to see home. In fact, were it not for said salty stabs of pain, being in the water might've been the most comfortable he'd been since being wrestled to the ground by the wraiths. He might've stayed in there a bit longer, were he not worried about figuring out where the kids were.

A howl ripped from his throat before he'd even left the shallows, summoning their brood. He needed to see with his own two (one and a half) eyes that they were okay -- Cairo in particular. Sobek hadn't been seen and Vasili hoped that he was still at home, where they all belonged. Neph said Khyan and his girl had gone on some... helpful-Henrietta job, but fine. It was fine. He didn't want to be the one to take their kids off-island for the first time or anything. Stupid end of the world.

Vasili pulled himself onto shore with a grunt, wincing, and turned to check on Neph, make sure she was out of the ocean safely before carrying on even so much as a step.

With relief, he noted their daughters scent.

Another howl, equal parts demanding and uneasy. The sun was setting, and the sky was beginning to take on the colors of sunset, but he didn't for a moment believe his heathen children were tucked safely in bed already asleep.



RE: I'll tell you a story that'll make a skeleton cry - Sobek - 5/11/2026

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It had been more than a hot moment since Sobek had seen his parents — Cairo had made it safe back to the island, and Creole. The boy had only been alone on the island for a little while, but even so, the isle teemed with life, keeping the sadist busy in his very own way. It also helped that he knew where his father had hidden some of his stashes across the jungle. Though a few days ago, he didn't worry about the consequences those actions would have — since it was quiet on the isle except for the siblings and their grandfather.

Though they came slamming forward the evening his father's howl hollered across the oceanic shallows. It didn't take more than the simple holler to have Sobek running for the sand. Even if he knew he'd be punished for his actions, in the moment, he yearned more to see his mother and father, making sure they were safe. Then he'd deal with his father's annoyance with him.

The dishelved boy came dashing through the jungle and hit the sand faster than a rock skipped across the ocean. He was bigger now than before, grown into his muscles, shedding the baby fat that used to cling to his bones. He can much more easily traverse the sands than he did when he was a child, almost eating shit the first time he'd ever seen the beach alongside his father. Now, he is shifting his wide spread paws across, his violet eyes set on the shoreline, squinting until the white and black bobs of his father's body wavered along the water. And not far behind, his mother.

Sobek ran for the shoreline. In seconds, he was there, uncaring about the saltwater that would cling to his fur and cleanse him of the muck and ichor he'd accumulated from weeks of boredom and lack of supervision (not that his parents would probably care too much about his hobbies). Dad! Maybe he shouldn't be calling him "dad" anymore, now that he was older, but it was a moment of weakness, after not seeing Vasili for so long. A light shone in his eyes upon seeing the familiar face of his father... But something was different about him. In the same way Cairo had come back different. A blue shadow-like thing ebbed from him, and the light in his eyes flickered.

His eyes then found his mother's wading form, she'd grown bigger, fatte— No, even she smelt off, and too, shared in the flickering aura. The closer she got, the realization fizzled in the boy's brain. She was pregnant. Sobek's face twisted a little, but he tried to pass it off as a nose wrinkle, now ambivalent to his parents' arrival back, Welcome home. His gaze would return to the Dragon Pharaoh, Looks like you and 'ma had a good time.

RE: I'll tell you a story that'll make a skeleton cry - Cairo - 5/14/2026


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Sobek Vasili

She had been slumbering peacefully in the den when the call rang out, her head lifted quickly without hesitation, audits swiveling towards the shores as she leapt to her paws and raced to the beaches. As she arrived she saw Sobek was already there and she slowed her pace a bit before stopping to watch as momma and pappa came to the shallows. She watched her sibling greet them and she huffed through her nose, always late to the party, before trotting to meet the trio.

Ma! Pappa! Cai called out to them as she brushed past Sobek briefly without a glace, nothing personal, she just missed pappa...

Stopping in front of them she dipped her head with a smile, tail waving behind her gleefully, though slowly as she observed. Mamma was big... Like, BIG. She didn't smell right either, something wasn't registering in her brain but she pushed it away as some of the magics in this world. She felt the light twinkling in her eyes in the evening sun and bounced her optics between the pair before finally bumping Sobek with a shoulder.