After the neighbors rudely interrupted her preparations, Nephthys returned to her work. Funny though, if that emperor hadn't arrived with an invasion force she would have invited them to the wedding!

As Khyan is the first of her children to find his own mate, this was...special. Important.

Maybe it would kick Sobek and Cairo into gear to find their own mates, in each other or otherwise. Maybe she SHOULD have betrothed them?

It didn't help of course, that she hadn't been to a proper wedding, her own had been impromptu and inspired by a godly pull in her soul. It had very little flare, though the fissure had been a spectacle itself! It had been short, sweet, and sensual. It had been fitting for the pair, their fires burn hot and quick.

But their numbers have grown now, they were a proper pack, they need proper ceremonies, rituals.

Things Nephthys hadn't really thought about, until it was needed.

The children had been enlisted to help, of course, the youngest litter set to dragging flowers from the jungle and finding pretty shells to the beach, aligning them all in a half circle that would be the venue. The elder children were set to hunting for a feast, Vasili of course had been sent to gather his stashes for the festivities. The children would get to see their mother soft and cuddly for perhaps the first time

Once the venue was decorated, the real work began.

Bribery, first of all, sweet fruits given to a monkey Nephthys has been trying to befriend to put her fingers to work. The monkey rode in on Nephthys's back, was carried to one of the rock platforms at the venue, and set to work as well. Piles of smaller bones had been set down for the monkey to braid into fur for whoever wanted to dress up, flowers as well, Nephthys herself had a fine adornment now situated in her scruff, smaller skulls in a necklace of vine wrapped around her throat.

Horrifying to look at probably.

'Paints' too, a skull of blood, another of mashed berries and sap that had been made last minute when Khyan protested at the blood.

Just before the sun rose on the day of, delicately, very delicately, she decorated Idalie's face with the berry paint, scoring both sides of the golden girl's jaw with red. Nervous? She asked quietly, checking in on the girl she had adopted in heart only, before moving to her son. Khyan too, got his jaw stained with red on each side, and a swipe on his brow for royalty. Ready? She asked him when she was done, pressing her nose to his cheek in a kiss before pulling back and looking at the pair.

Once the couple were decorated, and everyone that wanted bones or flowers braided into their fur had their decorations set, she did Vasili's. Him, she painted with blood, her heart burning with want as she traced his fine facial features. Cheekbones, chin, forehead, she thought it magnificent.

Of course she did though, she was obsessed with skulls.

Nephthys then had Vasili paint her the same.

Then, the sun peaked over the horizon, she waited for her husband to take his place at the water's edge, before she threw her head back to howl an announcement, calling the rest of the pack to the northern shore that overlooked the coral reef.

The wedding begins!

Skill:

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She'd been sulking in her den that morning. She hadn't slept much since the hunt, she knew what was coming, her and Sobek had hunted to help prepare for the feast and the wedding. Her stomach flopped and flipped inside her body, her brain swirled and whirled inside her head, her body ached and she should have been fine by now it's not like she'd never hunted before...

When the call rang up in the sky Cairo growled to herself from inside the dark cave before she pulled herself to her large pale bottomed paws and set out to the shore. Duo-toned optics narrowed at the space ahead of her as she glared from a pale mask. Khyan. Idalie. Married. Yuck.

When she arrived she was the first one there besides her parents and the couple and she plopped her ass heavily on the sands to roll her eyes and sit slouched to the side with a bored look on her face already.

Yuck.

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