He didn't much like the company that came over yesterday, or what he saw after it was let in. While Angel spoke on the ninth about someone coming over, she didn't disclose who it was or how many it was that was coming over; she pretty much left him and Eshal in the cold on who their visitors were.

Due to his having a history with the green, eco-friendly Mercedes SL2X Pagoda, that pulled in the drive, he had an idea on who their first visitor was. Once Mr. Ajeet Mahatma Ballal was seen as leaving his vehicle, then coming up the walk, he went to get his wife's attention. It was Angel who let the man in, and who led him to the living room and then told him to make himself comfortable. Once the man was in that room, everyone came down to make him feel welcome. A bit too welcome, if one had asked him. He and his daughter had witnessed the whole range of the boys' embarrassing antics with the man; along with being frustrated, and a little angered, over what they were doing, he was surprised over how they weren't letting him, or Angel, speak with or hurry the man's visit. In his mind, the boys had shown that they had no true regard to how one went by having company over—while they acted their age when their friends came over, they still presented themselves well... with the company that came over yesterday, they didn't do that. They jumped. They hogged. They jowled a bit too much. They probably also made the visiting parties to the abode feel embarrassed as well—seeing that Mr. Ballal, and the Leinart family, didn't leave in a hurry after they started on them was of equal surprise to him.

After voicing his displeasure in the boys' antics, then refusing to leave his wife's side, or let her speak with the "guest" on her own, he found himself as being asked to go to the kitchen—he only went there after seeing that Angel was headed to that part of the house too. Angel surprised him by saying that the boys were just acting friendly, and that they wouldn't do what they were with anyone that they didn't know or weren't close to, and that he needed to calm down and let her and Mr. Ballal speak alone instead of acting as a sort of chaperone to them. While he and Angel were talking, Eshal was leading the Leinart family into the house; while he wasn't available to see the boys' antics with them, Eshal was. According to her, they did the same thing with the head of the family—while including the other members of the family in on their conversations, and showing them the things that they brought down from their rooms, they mostly concerned themselves with Mr. Leinart.

In a way, in was the Leinart's that made him decide to stay in the room and see the visitation out. Mr. Leinart, who should of been concerning himself with the affairs of his country instead of taking lengthy trips to see people who lived a distance from him, had asked him a few questions on himself, and on what he knew of the other realms that were outside of the one that they were in, while Mrs. Leinart seemed to be more focused on his involvement in the removal of one of his wife's unborn children. In his mind, Thede and Rainmund Leinart should of been getting ready for bed or supper—their parents were showing good skills in taking them on an hours-long ride on a school-night, and on keeping them up later than they should. According to the species handbook, that charted some of the practices that the humans did, a human child started their schooling at the age of two or three then continued on until graduating at seventeen or eighteen. For some, the age of schooling continued after the regular graduation occurred—on average, some humans were in their mid to late-twenties by the time they finished school.

With this being known to him, the older of the three Leinart children should of also been either sitting down to supper or getting ready for bed at the time of her family's visit.

Ajeet Mahatma Ballal appeared in the driveway at eight in the evening, while the Leinart family appeared about twenty to twenty-five minutes later. In his figuring, Mr. Ballal should of also stayed in Berlin—with his having a wife and two young children, he should of been looking after them instead of worrying himself about the six-plus hour drive to see his wife and sons. With his having as good of a job as he did, he should of also been getting ready for bed.

"May I ask why you did it?" the woman, who introduced herself as Rosalinde, asked after half of the conversation between her and her husband, Mr. Ballal, and he and his wife occurred.

"Did what?"

"Aid in the removal of one of your wife's unborn babies."

It was very obvious that Angel spoke on certain things that happened before they were an item. While he disclosed that they weren't married at the time of the event's occurrence, he also said that he knew something was amiss between them after his nephew gave him a photograph of her. The photograph that he mentioned to the woman was never returned to his nephew; due to the feeling that swept over him, he wasn't able to go through with the act of giving it back to the one who he got it from. Along with still having it to that day, he carried it in his wallet—where it was now.

It was really Vile who was the main instigator of the removal of that baby. After seeing that she was pregnant, then recognising that it wasn't his, he declared that he wanted it removed. His brother used a device that allowed one to operate on another without anesthesia being applied while Vile held Angel's arms and he held Angel's legs. After disclosing this bit of information, he noted a sudden change in the woman. While she refused to speak to him after hearing what she did, she spoke to Angel... and in a rather calm, and sympathetic, voice too.

The baby that Angel was carrying back then was sired by a human by the name of Atlas of Sclera. The man not only claimed her as his, and added her to his harem, but he also forced himself upon her. From what he had heard, his wife conceived for him twice; she lost the first on her own while the second was removed from her. He did confirm for the woman that Angel wasn't able to reproduce with a human male, but he wasn't able to say anything further to her on this issue—if that baby was born alive, and was still alive, he wouldn't break Angel's bond to it, or deny her the honor of raising it. She still had Guyunis, did she not? With her still having her adopted son, who he knew nothing of until recently, the woman should of known that he wasn't out to get or prevent his wife from being the mother that she wanted to be.

Rosalinde Leinart, along with branding his brother and nephew as being a Baby Killer, had branded him as being one too. He didn't know how to react to that, because that wasn't him. Towards the end of the visitation, he spoke on the upcoming removal of his family from the planet then on some of the matters that'd orbit it. The two men, Ajeet, especially so, had looked both worried and sad over hearing what he said; while both emotions were normal in being felt, he had confidence that they'd be fine. They'd make other friends, and go on with their lives... in time, they might even forget about their friendship with his wife and sons. Humans weren't immortal, and they sometimes got to being so forgetful later on in life that they... well, forgot certain things that happened either in their lives or in the lives of their loved ones.

Really, the only good thing that came from the visit was his seeing how lit-up Guyunis became after receiving the two items from Mr. Leinart. Seeing how bright the boy became gave him an idea... which he was in the process of doing right now.

"Are you sure it'll last, and hold up to the item that'll be plugged into it?" he asked the man, who was putting the small, black box, that had a wide speaker and some buttons and dials on its front, on the counter.

"Yessir." the shop's owner, a peculiar man who had a headful of orange and green tentacles, large, red eyes, and a triangular-shaped mouth, replied. Seeing as it might be asked again, he repeated what he said to his customer earlier. "This is the standard unit for a beginner—just about everyone starts off with a fifteen watter. It should last for the instrument that you've described."

"He plays that B.C. almost daily, would this last against near-daily use?"

"For a while, yes. You might need to get a replacement for it after fifty to seventy-five years if the instrument that your son's using is hooked up and then played almost every day."

"Is there a warranty?"

"There is, yes." the man went to work on his computer; after typing the item's number in, then getting the information on it on his screen, he rang out a price. "The issue price is $99.99, while, with the warranty included, it's $125.75."

Considering the amount of cash that was thrown for the item in question that was played almost every day, he thought that the price for the box was cheap, but fair. After hearing the issue price, then the price with the warranty included, he dug his wallet out from the pocket that it was in; all while remembering the little talk that he and Lhaklar had last night, he removed the required funds from it then gave them to the man who owned the shop. With that matter done and over with, he slid his wallet back into its pocket then waited for the receipt to be made and then given to him.

While it took a while, he was able to get the price of the item that Guyunis was gifted on his birthday. The B.C. Rich was the very guitar that was in the pawnshop that was owned by his son's friend's father; Mr. Bonnaire, after the one who originally owned it wasn't able to come in to pay or reclaim it as his, hung it up then slapped the price-tag of €300 on it. While Mr. Bonnaire was "kind" enough to knock €100 off it, he wasn't the one who handled the transaction—that would be his son, Astor Bonnaire Jr. He was in his son's room when he decided to ask the question on the guitar; Lhaklar was just starting in on his... skeletalized French twist streamliner 1922 Gerin when the price of €200 was said. The claim of his saving some of his allowance each month, and of his taking €20 from his paycheck each week, was made when he asked how he was able to acquire the funds for it.

Before coming to Blerizax's Music Emporium, which was on Zeta Levushi, one of the planets that were in the Zeta Reticuli system, which was some light years from Earth and its galaxy, he took a trip to Mr. Bonnaire's shop then asked him if what his son had told him was true. Half of him had expected for the man to tell him something different, and that Lhaklar had spent more than what he told him on the instrument; he was quite surprised in hearing that Lhaklar's story was very accurate and that Mr. Bonnaire did, indeed, knock €100 off the guitar.

"It was a very legal transaction, sir. Your son showed all proper I.D.'s, and signed all available papers that needed to be signed, and he gave all funds over. No issues were encountered in my store." Astor Bonnaire Sr. said after he asked his questions, then gave him a blank, stupid look.

About twenty minutes after lunch came to a close, most of the boys decided to leave the house to do odd and end things. Eshal "hussled" Lazeer into taking her with him, so she was with him right now; Bile and Lhaklar had yet to start trusting her again, so they were fast, but polite, in saying no when she asked if she could go with one of them after learning that they were leaving the house. He wasn't very sure on what his two, older sons were doing... but he presumed that they were behaving themselves, and staying out of trouble. After Guyunis left the house to spend time with his "tattoo'd friend", he decided to go the pawnshop. Once business was done in Mr. Bonnaire's shop, he left it then gave his younger, half-brother a call; along with the usual, he asked him if he knew of any music stores that were in or around the planet that he and his family were living on—after telling him why he wanted to know this information, he learned that Blerizax's Music Emporium was probably the best music store in the Zeta Reticuli system to visit and purchase specific items from.

He had no more concluded his conversation with his brother before teleporting to the store then going in.

With his not knowing a thing on musical instruments—oh, he picked up the flute, and then the Rudra veena, a few times when he was a kid but he wasn't very good at playing them—, he asked around for one of the store's available salespersons before, finally, getting the store's owner's attention. Naturally, Mr. Nuryot showed him the more expensive amplifiers first before showing him the less expensive beginner amps that he asked to see; after seeing the one that he just paid for, he asked a slew of questions on it before nodding his head then saying that it was the one that he was looking for.

All while paying for the thing, he was thinking about how his parents loathed whenever he played the two instruments that he took up. Both they, and his sister, were glad when he decided that music-playing wasn't for him and, really, so was he. His fingers got in the way with them, and he didn't have the "gift" of knowing sound or symbols, so everything that he tried to play was pretty crappy. After the funds were given over for the box, he found himself thinking about how different things were going to be at his mansion after his family was returned to it—he shoved this thought to the far recesses of his brain right when Mr. Nuryot slid the receipt forward.

"If your son is serious on continuing with his play of his guitar, don't hesitate to come back—my store has the best variety of amps and other musical equipment available; he won't be disappointed with anything that's purchased from here." the man, who was of the Nyglot species, who lived in the next galaxy over, said after the receipt was removed from his possession.

"Thank you," he said while putting the receipt in his inside jacket pocket. After the receipt was safely put away, he grabbed his purchase then left the store; he teleported to the house that his family was staying at almost immediately after leaving the store.

Just about every store owner, or employee, said for their customers to come back, and that they had the "best" of a certain piece of merchandise available. Unless one of his other sons had or gained an interest in musical instruments, or Guyunis was really serious on learning how to play his guitar, and needed some equipment to either learn on, or get a better sound to their chosen instruments, he had no plans to buy anything else that one of the boys could make noise with. After appearing before the house, he wasted little time in going to the door or going in.

It was just his luck that one of the neighbors was both home and by one of their residence's windows when he was going inside.

"Glad to see that there's movement going on around the place." Kurt Klied said after letting the drape, that was before his family's kitchen window, drop.

Yes, but what was going on inside? While he and his family had seen the Irene boys going out to do activities that they had formerly abandoned in April and May, they hadn't seen much of the girl alien in June or July; this was a bit alarming. In April and May, the girl was seen as moving about or standing in the back or front yards; she was a very curious absence in them yards on the two following months... and it seemed that some of the boys were either agitated or angry whenever they left the house to do as they usually did during the day hours in them months. Miss. Irene's husband was still going out to collect the mail, so it was known on his still being in the house, and Miss. Irene was still going to work—they knew this because either he or his wife was home to see him collect the mail or one of their daughters decided to take a trip to U-Krop-It to both pick up small things and see the woman who was their planet's heroine. Petra claimed that Miss. Irene looked happy and healthy, and Sarah said that she saw Bile and Lhaklar on two of the days that she went to the store and that they, too, looked happy and healthy.

Petra and Sarah, due to not being available to be home on the days this month where it was warm or decent out, hadn't been able to see or take note of the girl alien making her rounds of the property's yards and neither he nor his wife had asked the neighbors if they had seen her or not. The last he saw the girl was on June 10; she was getting into one of the two cars that were owned by her family. The family did a lot of shopping on that day—when they came back, there was a moment of inactivity before each member of the household was seen as taking a group of bags into the house. The following month, Miss. Irene went to the store, and did the pantry shopping, on her own; except for the female alien, all in her house came out to take the groceries inside after she pulled in the drive.

The BMW was back to being used. He saw both Bile and Lhaklar use it a few times last month, and Guyunis took it out for a spin twice this month. Lazeer, just that morning, was spotted as being near the community center, and Hazaar was noticed as walking down a sidewalk with a boy who looked to be around seventeen years old. He and his wife had seen the alien man leave the house, and stay away for a good length of time, before returning to it numerous times; they presumed that he left the shield to do something with or on the galaxies that he claimed to have—this was the only explanation that they had for his leaving and being gone for so long. With everyone but that girl alien being seen and accounted for, he was starting to grow concerned over something going on in the house again.

"It's none of my business, but I think it's time for me to head over and speak, and see, Mr. Irene." Kurt thought while going towards the door of his and his family's abode.

The first thing that he saw, after leaving the house, was the garden in the flowerbeds. His wife, instead of using the flowerbeds for flowers, had decided to plant and then grow some produce in them; she said it cut a few euros off the monthly grocery list and, indeed, it did. The carrots, tomatoes, radishes, and cantaloupe, that were in them, were bigger and better tasting than what was sold in the local food marts too—over the years, the neighbors had all thrown their jokes on saying how "crazy" his wife was for not using the flowerbeds for flowers... while he thought it was a little weird for them to be used in the way that they were, he agreed with his wife on there being value and purpose behind what she was doing with them. After exiting the house, then turning to make sure the door was cracked for Natascha, who was running around the front yard with Sarah, he noticed the animals that were in the flowerbeds.

"Oh, how nice. They're back." he said of the Hedgehogs.

In the age where certain scientists were trying to crossbreed certain animals with hopes of bringing extinct or formerly lost animals back from the dead, someone was struck with the "idea" of trying to crossbreed the European hedgehog with the domesticated variety of hedgehog. In 2170, this idea was followed through with "intense" research, which paid off a bit too grandly for some and caused a major headache for others. Even though the European hedgehog and the Pygmy or Four-toed hedgehog were a separate species, the scientists were able to crossbreed them successfully then get their offspring to be fertile. For the next twenty years, they bred, studied, and "perfected" the new species until it was decided to sell them as an exotic pet—as a way to regain some of the money used in the study of the animals, he was sure.

The animals were sold as pets for the next two years before Germany, and a few other countries in Europe, banned them. Along with not being able to be sold in petstores, they weren't allowed to be kept as pets—some grumbled over this, while others breathed sighs of relief over knowing that the animals wouldn't escape their enclosures or be set free by their irresponsible owners. Despite the ban, a woman, who was said to live near the border of Spain, bought five of the animals from an undisclosed source then started breeding them for her own purposes. She bred her animals for all of three years before the law was notified of her having them—along with having an illegal animal in her possession, she wasn't taking very good care of them and had way too many on her property.

On March 12, 2195, the woman, after noticing that the law was coming to confiscate her animals, and put her in jail for having them, set all of what she had loose. On estimate, she had around fifty or so hedgehogs on her property; the carcasses of all but twenty were found soon after the release, while the remaining animals both survived the area that they were released in and bred with the native population.

Over the years, the old native European hedgehog, that was known to reside in both Germany and some parts of Spain and France, was bred-out by this man-made creation. The animal that currently roamed German, Spain, and French soil was generally more colorful, and half the side of the varient that it bred out, but heavier that its domestic forebears. It became a nuisance rather quickly for its habit of destroying crops by digging them up for the insects that lie under them, and by eradicating the insects that keep them healthy, and by eating the eggs of birds that nest on the ground, and by eating the eggs of certain, endangered reptiles. They were also known for eating certain, endangered reptiles and amphibians.

After seeing the five hedgehogs that were in the flowerbeds, he turned to look at Natascha. The family dog, while being a very good pet to him and his family, was notoriously famous for chasing the varmints that came in to prowl and then try to destroy Mitzi's garden; once them five animals were seen, he gave out the call for the dog to come dispose of them.

"Oh Naaaataaascha..." he called to the dog, who stopped what she was doing then turned to give him a curious look. "Get 'em... Get 'em, girl"

He pointed at the flowerbeds; the dog, after bounding over, then seeing what it was that he was pointing at, yipped loudly then charged in their direction. The five animals, that were in his wife's garden, scampered away at once. While none were hurt, he hoped that they wouldn't return. After the hedgehogs were chased away, and Natascha was rewarded for her service, he resumed his trek to his neighbor's house.

"You sure that this is where you found the adults?" Eshal asked her brother right when Kurt Klied was reaching the yard that belonged to the house that her and her family were living in.

"In or about," Lazeer replied while placing the container, that most of his baby Emperor Newts were in, on the ground near the river.

"You mean, you don't know, right?"

"It was around this area"

After piddle farting around in town that morning, then coming home to eat lunch, he decided to go on and release the animals that he didn't need. After spending around fifteen minutes of checking each animal over, then picking the ones that he wanted to keep, he put the ones that he didn't want in the small container that he purchased for just this reason then started to leave the house. He had no more reached the hallway that the front door was on before hearing his sister coming for him—initially, he thought that she was going to get on him for going out but, to his surprise, she just hounded him on his letting her come with him. After two to three minutes of hearing her ring out promise after promise, and begging him to let her come along, he relented to her coming with him.

After telling her where they were going, they teleported then started walking along until finding the river that he wanted to find. The Dulongjiang river, which was located in Yunnan, China, was a bit wild where he was, but he had managed to find a section of it that wasn't but so wild; after setting his container down, then taking its top off, he tilted it until it rested on its side. All of the baby newts, that were born in July, and were newly metamorphosed into miniature versions of their parents, were set free. He watched them go off into the wild for only a second before righting the container, then sending it home via a spell, then grabbing the container that hung at his waist.

His newts were given a potion recently to prevent them from having anymore babies; while it took a little while to take effect, he hadn't seen anymore eggs being laid in the cage that they were in. Seeing as he was here, and had two containers that weren't being used, he decided to check around for something that may be interesting to put in them. Eshal only knew of his being here to release the bulk of his Emperor Newt babies—knowing her, she'd probably throw a fit if she knew of his also being here to look for more pets.

In his mind, he was doing fine with the ones that he had, and could afford one more pet to what he had; it should be okay for him to find and then bring two more amphibians home.

If nothing was found, he'd just call it a day. He'd tell his parents, and brothers, that he did nothing but release his baby newts and then look around if he was asked what he did that day. Looking around in Yunnan, China wasn't a crime, and he had permission to be here—he saw no reason to not take advantage of his being here to do as he was.

"You going to release the babies of your other animals too?" his sister asked him after he started moving away from her.

"No. There's only five of them, and they've got a different daddy so there'd be no inbreeding going on with them when the time comes for them to have babies of their own." Lazeer replied.

"But... what if they bred with their mother?"

"They won't."

"How do you know that?"

"Cause I won't let them."

"Oh. Okay."

While moving along, paying special attention to his surroundings, and to what may or may not be in them, he slid the pair of latex gloves, that he also brought with him, over his hands. His sister, unlike he, who was walking on either the bare ground or in the water of the riverbank, was stepping on a series of stones that looked to be purposely placed where they were. Unless a snake or something jumped at her, she was safe from anything that may or may not hurt at her—with her not being in contact with the water, and being above it by at least eighteen inches, and with the stones being as close as they were, nothing that could be in it could get at her and, with there being open ground on her left side, nothing would chance the risk of running to grab her either. Once the gloves were on his hands, he stepped into the water then started the process of flipping rocks or tree limbs. Unlike the last time, where he was looking for an animal that was over four inches in length, he was looking for anything that looked interested, or that got his attention.

"Oh cool!" he exclaimed after flipping a slab of rock then finding something underneath it.

While it wasn't alive, it wasn't decomposed either. After seeing the two-headed black salamander, that had two gold stripes on its back, he scooped it up then put it in the container. Just because he was here to look for potential pets didn't mean that he wasn't to look or walk past a deceased animal that had two heads on it—the four and a half inch amphibian could be preserved then put in his room.

Yunnan, except for in the middle-part of May, and the early-part of June, was experiencing an abnormal cool period. He wasn't but so surprised to see anything that was an amphibian being deceased, or deformed, for that matter. There were an array of factors at work for the region's amphibians to be dying or be born deformed—parasites; disruptions in the climate, which was causing the eggs to not develop properly; and polution. As of the last few months, a lot of pollutants were being put in the Dulongjiang river, which was causing more than enough problems for the area's wildlife. The government of Yunnan was trying to stop this from happening; so far, no one was listening to what they were saying, or were stopping what they were doing. Just last week, a trio of tigers were seen as looking either very poorly or dead about two miles apart; a few days ago, a group of hikers came upon a lake that had nothing but frogs and fish floating on it; and, on the twenty-secondth of last month, a group of children, who were on a field trip in a park, saw a few baby birds that's legs were fused together. Things didn't look good and the government was trying its best to either stop or slow it down. With Yunnan being on the forefront for tiger habitat, and having the largest concentration of tigers in it, the government was more focused on the tigers than on the other wildlife—but that didn't mean that they weren't concerned for the other animals that lived here.

"Life goes on, as always." he thought after flipping two tree limbs then finding a couple of frogs, who were busy in having sex, under them.

"Lazeer?" Eshal asked after seeing that he wasn't moving from where he was. "What is it?"

"Nothin'. Just watching frog porn." Lazeer replied.

"Ew!" he could detect the notes of her wanting to say I'm telling daddy from her clearly.

He went on his way; flipping rocks, and tree limbs, and grossing his sister out whenever she asked if he was okay or what he was doing. At around the ten minute mark, he found something else that he wanted to take home and get preserved—while it looked like a bullfrog, it was yellow and had these odd, ball-like things hanging from the sides of its head that were a bright blue color. He put this odd creature in the container that he had then said the spell to make both it and the salamander freeze so they wouldn't stink or decompose any before he got home.

Another spell was done a few minutes later. Unlike the last one, this one made an empty duplicate of the container that he had. After seeing the two animals that he just uncovered from under a half-bark, he couldn't resist the temptation of taking them home.

"What is that!" Eshal exclaimed after jumping from where she was then going over to where her brother was kneeling.

"Good question, but one that I'll be sure to answer once I get home then take a trip to the library." Lazeer replied while putting the brownish-gold newt, that had a set of very prominent ribs sticking out from the sides of its back, into the container. He was quick in picking its mate, which was a little darker than it, and had a red stripe going down the underside of its tail, and red toes and ribbing on its back, up. Once the animals were in the container, he closed it then stood up.

With his signal, they went home. Instead of going their separate ways after entering the house, his sister followed him up the stairs then into his room; she watched as he got his new pets squared away.

While this wasn't the first time that she was in his room, it was the first time that she took it, and the items that were in it, in. She found herself as being both ashamed of herself for her prior transgressions towards her brothers and amazed with what she saw.

Except for the ceiling's models, Lazeer's room was well-maintained. There were no smells to complain about, or to make her come close to gagging or sneezing. She saw no piles of dirty laundry, or spoiled food items, or glasses lying about. There were a few things out of order on the corner desk, and there was a pile of unorganized magazines on the bed, but everything else was straight and, better yet, dust and dirt-free. She couldn't help but be proud of her youngest brother; it looked like her assumption of him being spoiled was wrong—this room didn't look to be mother-cleaned, and it didn't look to be thrown together in a hurry, or cleaned only when its owner was given the prompts to do so. It looked like he was looking after it.

While watching him put the dirt in the container, then getting it decorated for the two animals that were about to live in it, she thought about how his chamber on Moas was probably going to be arranged—her father, and one of his staff, were the ones to fix it up; while her mother and brothers were settling down, and getting use to being in the house again, they were busy in getting that room, and the ones that her other brothers had, ready for occupation. Back then, Lazeer wasn't able to fix it to how he wanted it to look like; maybe, after the move was done, he'd get that chance. Her father might let him hang some of his models on his room's ceiling, or on the ceiling of the room that was being attached to it; with the way this room looked, her father might not have to worry about how clean or organized it'd be after the move was made.

After looking at the room's many items, and already-present animals, then returning her attention to what her brother was doing, she found herself as being proud of him all over again. What he was doing was something else to be proud of—here was the baby of her family, taking good care of his pets, and making sure that the new ones that he picked up were also cared for; it didn't look like he depended on their mother, or one of their brothers, to look after his pets... it looked like he took care of them, and their needs, himself.

Initially, she was against his taking up the animals that he found, and his bringing them home. After seeing the state of his room, she was no longer against his having anything that was a living organism. While she was a little confused over his wanting to keep the deceased animals, she was happy to see that he was both keeping and looking after the animals that he found.

"Going to name them?" she asked after the container was done in being prepared for the two amphibians, and after they were put in it.

"No. None of my pets have names." Lazeer replied after going to make space on his dresser for his new pets.

"How come?"

"Some are too similar to one another, and I don't really want to name the rest."

Except for his having to answer the door after someone knocked on it, nothing really eventful happened in the house between his, his youngest son, and his daughter's homecoming. Mr. Klied came in for a few minutes to just talk and see how things were going for him and his before leaving to go home. In a way, he was glad that the man came over to speak and see how things were going—Mr. Klied, he was sure, would pass all of what he said around, which would get everyone's minds off what may or may not be happening under the roof of his wife's house. While he left certain bits on how life under the house's roof was like these past few months, he did mention that an issue occurred between his daughter and the boys and that it was both noticed and taken care of; Mr. Klied looked to be relieved over hearing this—this was mutual for him, since he was also relieved in all the fuss between his children being over.

The next few hours went by slowly. Eshal and Lazeer seemed to be getting along; except for the one issue that he needed to come in about, they had no fights or arguments between themselves. Eshal stayed in Lazeer's room, looking at his stuff and learning a bit about him, for about ten minutes before leaving to spend some time in her room. After an hour passed, she returned to her brother's room then "haggled" him into having her be his partner in one of the games that were compatible with the Super Dendy game system. It was during their time in playing one of the consoles games that he found himself as having to come in to stop a small fight—Lazeer "cheated" his way before her in one of the system's racing games and Eshal was quite vocal on it.

Bile came in at around two-thirty. Naturally, he reeked of marijuana; a shower took care of the smell, while a quick talk on why he didn't want his son to be smoking that junk got nowhere and fast. He let the matter drop after seeing that his words weren't getting through—his son would be quitting the stuff here in the next few months, he told himself after letting the boy go on to another part of the house. Lhaklar came home about fifteen minutes later; he had two bags on him that contained a thing of new paintbrushes, two jars of blue and red model paint, a jar of paint thinner, and two wooden display stands. His son, when the subject of the display stands came up, said that they were for something that he was planning on displaying in his room—nothing on this thing was said; his son just said that then went to his room. Angel came home next; along with meeting her at the door, he kissed her then led her to the kitchen, where she had a snack, and a conversation with Eshal and Bile.

Hazaar surprised everyone when he came in. His secondborn son went to one of the nearby dumps; along with finding a bunch of items that he was planning on giving to his mother and brothers, he found a few things for him and his sister. The enameled trinket box of an octopus, Buhduwg—or Bulldog, as the humans called the breed—, kitten, mother bear with her cub, tiger, Dachsoon—or Dachshund to the humans—, rabbit, and Giraffe with her calf were in good shape and, he was sure, would be greatly appreciated. Eshal gained the interest in trinket boxes at a very young age; she was still interested and had a better than fine collection of them. At times, he found himself as throwing $150 on three to four of them boxes a month. He was both glad to see that his son was looking out for his sister during his time in scrounging for things in the dump and quick in giving him, and his brothers, the word on their sister's little interest.

The boys said that they'd keep an eye out for their sister's interest after he called them down to tell them about it. After saying this, they went up to resume what what they were doing before being called downstairs. It was quiet in the house for all of two hours after they went up to their rooms. When Guyunis came in, he was both alone and had a flier on him about a concert that he was interested in attending. While he was shocked over hearing that he received permission to go to it, he left him alone when he went to talk to Angel. After the conversation on his going to the concert was over, he stood then approached him; he told him that there was something waiting just inside his room for him then waited for some sort of reply or reaction to happen.

While no reply came, a reaction did. The boy gave him one hell of a long look before turning then "racing" upstairs. It wasn't until fifteen minutes later that he came down. Naturally, he had his cat with him; he was fast in asking about what he found.

"I got it for you." he said after the question on the amplifier was asked. "Seem to be right interested in that guitar of yours, and seem to need something to get the actual sound from it. Saw no reason to not get you it."

"Dude... what... Why'd you do tha-k-t?" Guyunis seemed to be having a time in getting a sentence out, which was a trifle bit hilarious on his end.

"Thought you'd need and want it. Consider it as being a late-birthday present."

"... Thanks!" Guyunis said no more. He turned then ran upstairs; it didn't surprise him or anyone else in the house when the actual electronic sound of the guitar was heard a few minutes later.