A Question of Marriage-
Jack ventured to the village and was instantly bombarded by people from said village, all adult males with sons.
"Jack, I will give you 100 pounds-"
"I'll give you 200 pounds"
"350"
"a thousand!"
Jack stared at them in confusion before slowly backing away.
"I... just realized I forgot... my uh... yeah" she turned and ran back home.
"Jack? What is it?" Black Ice asked when he saw his housemate run in.
"The village's gone crazy" she replied, "I'm not going back there in a while"
A little white panther bounded over and flapped her large wings as she climbed the other female.
"She couldn't sit still all day" Black Ice stated, "I was just about to take her outside"
Jack smiled nuzzled the small creature as she nuzzled her.
The three left the house and Jack placed the panther on the frosty ground.
The panther played her favorite game, snow drift diving. The two humans laughed at her excitement.
"Be careful!" Jack called.
"You are such a mom" BI teased.
"Better a mom than a dad" Jack countered.
Black Ice scoffed, "I'm not a dad"
"You so are!"
"Am not"
"Are too"
"Not"
"Is"
"Nope"
"Yup"
"No-"
"Jack!" a man, about 39, and a boy her age raced over, "you ran off earlier, are you alright?"
"I'm fine"
"Then will you consider marrying my son? I will give you a thousand pounds" he smiled hopefully, so did the young male next to him.
Jack stared before looking at her housemate, he looked as surprised as she felt.
"Umm" she started, "I'll need to think about it"
"Of course, my dear" he smiled and left.
Jack and Black Ice looked at each other.