Kazeodori arrived in Wellspring Village to see her hubby after being gone for so long. She came to the house only to find Avaa and AmethystMyst arguing in front of the door. Except they weren't arguing. There was no yelling or fists flying. Instead they were huddled together, looking rather worried. They didn't notice the venomancer's arrival so she transformed to her fox form and crept up close as possible to see if she can hear what they were whispering about.

"Its his favorite," AmethystMyst said. Her eyes were wide open in shock.
"He saved weeks worth of quest rewards," Avaa added.

It was obvious the girls were talking about Ajaa and since they were talking about favorites, that meant clothes. How that guy came to love clothes so much, Kazeodori didn't know. She had a feeling Tala knew why, but that was beside the point. Ajaa had many favorite pieces of clothes. There was his pink pants with sparkles up the sides, the pastel green riot mesh, the green pants that showed off his butt, or even those black pants with slits on the sides and gold flames going up on either side of the slits.

"Why would he do this?"

"I'm not sure who is more shocked. Darkcri or Tala."

The cat venomancer was slowly starting to get an idea of the situation. Its seems Ajaa is letting Darkcri wear one of his favorite pieces of clothing. That still left many questions. Which piece? Why now? Did her hubby get his brain knocked around too many times on a quest? If Tala was shocked by this, then something seriously is wrong.

Kazeodori quietly left the girls and went around the house to the back. She found Tala out back feeding her pets and some strays that wander in. There were even genie houses in a tree for the genies that they summoned, but didn't want to bond with. Tala looked worried. She was gnawing on her lower lip. The cat venomancer transformed back to her humanoid form and was about to speak up, but she noticed the pets shaking their heads no. With a sigh, she left the deer venomancer alone and entered the house through the back door. Maybe she'll get answers in here.

She entered the kitchen, finding KJ and Avan making a meal. They tend to keep to themselves, not really socializing except with a few. For a moment, she thought about asking them, but decided against it. KJ never spoke to her before and Avan tends to be tight-lipped about everything. Now if Cloud Shadow was here, he could get her to talk about anything and everything.

To get the information she needed, she needed to go to the source. That meant finding her hubby. Since the others were home, good chance he was too. She followed the familiar path through the house to the stairs, then up, and down the hall to the familiar door. Not bothering to knock, she opened it. It was occupied alright.

Her eye twitched.

It twitched again.

Ajaa is usually pretty good about keeping the room clean and never would he allow clothes to pile up on the floor. Wrinkles are not a fashion statement or at least, not a good one. She eyes something in a pile. Aren't those her panties? Eye started twitching more. On the unkempt bed, snoozed Ajaa. Except it wasn't Ajaa. How was the saying? Somewhere in world, everyone has twin. Well, this was Ajaa's.

She made a frost scarab and dropped it on the bare chest of the look-alike. He immediately woke up pawing at his chest and yelping. Kazeodori cleared her throat to get his attention. He stopped pawing at his chest and looked up.

"Hi," he greeted weakly. He had this oh-shit-I-have-been-caught-look.

"Don't hi me, Aaja. Where is Ajaa?"

"I didn't do anything. He went on a long quest without telling anyone. To keep everyone from worrying I decided to take his place until he came back."

"I hardly doubt that's the reason."

"He really did…" Aaja tried to interrupt, but Kazeodori silenced him with a look.

"I believe you about the quest part. It's the part about being here to keep everyone else from worrying that I don't believe. If I were to guess, I'd say you got tired of having to fend for yourself so instead of going home, you saw an opportunity and came here."

"Not like they noticed. Been here nearly a week and they haven't noticed."

"Oh they noticed something alright. While you have similar looks, you lack where it really counts."

"I shared the clothes with the mystic brother. I was being nice."

"Being nice?" She picks up a shirt from the floor. "These wrinkles will take forever to straighten out, and Ajaa NEVER shares clothes with Darkcri if he can help it! And I don't even want to know why my underthings are on the floor." She glares at him again.

"Still, they don't know and what they don't know, won't hurt them. Well, look at the time. If we leave now, we can make lunch with Stars and Cloud."

"Not so fast, there is still the matter of your punishment."

"Punishment?" Aaja paled.

Ajaa felt bad about not telling anyone he was going on a long quest. Hopefully the gifts he got would help get him back in their good graces. He arrived home only to find everyone gathered in the backyard. Even Kazeodori, Cloud Shadow, and StarsHeart were there. Everyone was sitting back, drinking, eating, and having a merry time. It seems the entertainment was…Aaja doing laundry? Looking closely at the laundry he noticed those were his and Kazeodori's clothes. This better be one damn good story.

"I see everyone is having a good time," he greeted.

"AJAA!" Everyone greeted. He found himself cuddling with his wife, listening to a rather good story.