Italy, Tuscan, Firence, sometime between 1460/1470
Munkustrap looked strangely to the others ladies of the Medici's court which seemed offended with Marguerita.
The powerful noble human family had invited him and his own family to a secret party, where only the court and the circle of Medici's artists were allowed.
Tuggher has come with Marguerita, finally gained their father approbation.
Marguerita was the pupil of Mastro Leonardo.
Munkustrap remembered very well when he went with his Father to Mastro Leonardo's home to ask for the girl's past.
"Oh, your majestic" said Mastro Leonardo looking from the papers he was working on.
Munkustrap cached same glimpse of machine's drawing.
They looked more advanced than the actual human technology.
But the genial mastro seemed always to be at least one hundred years before his time.
Some of his invention were used by the jellices, but Mastro Leonardo refused to let the human kind do the same.
Sadly he didn't trust his own kind, and neither Munkustrap did. Humans were not enough developed to understand and use well this kind of technology.
"how is going your work, my old friend?" asked gently Old Deuteronomy
"fine, quite fine" answered Mastro Leonardo then he looked into the Jellice Leader's eyes.
"but you two didn't come here for my work, didn't you?" he asked
Old Deuteronomy sighted and sit down in front of him.
Munkustap stud near his father
"you are right, my friend, as always" Old Deuteronomy said.
Mastro Leonardo just nodded at the compliment.
"you have surely noted that your pupil and my youngest son are becoming much closer to each other" Old Deuteronomy said
Mastro Leonardo sight and nodded again "yes"
"I have nothing against the girl" continued the old leader
"but?" asked Mastro Leonardo
"If I agree to their love, she will become one of us, with all the implication" said the leader
The Mastro took some time before answered
"what do you want to know?" he finally asked
"how she will left behind if she chooses Tuggher?" Old Deuteronomy asked
"apart me, none" was the answer
Munkustarp looked at the Mastro, in surprise
"doesn't she have a family? Friends?" he asked
Mastro Leonardo shook his head.
"no, her parents were killed during the past war, all her family disappeared and I was left in charge of her because his father was one of my most brilliant students" he said
"she is also shy and reserved. She enjoy only studying and painting. She is also gifted in it and into singing"
Munkustrap smiled at the last of the girl's ability
"so she is alone, except for you?" the jellice leader asked
Maestro Leonardo nodded
Munkustrap watched his father and sow so many thoughts passing into his mind.
Then Old Deuteronomy looked again to his human friend
"do you want her to be with my son?" asked
Maestro Leonardo sight and lend onto the back of his chair.
"I know she loves him deeply, and that he is totally in love with her" he finally said
"yes, I want them together"
"even if she will be lost to you?" asked Old Deuteronomy
The Maestro smiled "my dear friend, she is just lost to me" he said "I'm old and I will not survived her" he said as a matter of fact
"I love her as she is my own daughter and I can't think a better husband for her than your son"
He smiled at Munkustrap
"I know he is a little...selfish and look obsessed, but he loves her very very deeply" he said
Munkustrap nodded, knowing that his trouble little brother has found someone he cared the most.
"so will it be!" said Old Deuteronomy
After some days they celebrated the union of Marguerita and Tuggher, and made the ceremony of becoming a Jellice for the girl.
She gave up her mortality and become a Jellice, even if she keep her human body.
Now she sat with Demeter and the wife of the Medici's leader, dressed in a beautiful white and yellow dress that the Medici's Lady gifted her.
Also Demeter was dress in a gold and red human dress. All of them had to dress into human clothes because humans would not understand their customs and their pants.
Apart the Lady and her sister-in-low none of the other human women seemed to like his brother's mate.
They seemed jealous of her, a very human feeling that he didn't understand well.
One of the Italian gentlemen come near him.
"I was told that you lived many time before us" he said with a gentle smile.
Munkustrap smiled back remembered that strange man.
"yes, sir" he said "some of us were there when the pharaohs commissioned the Sphinx" he hinted at Skimble and Old Deuteronomy
"you see the pharaohs?" asked a little girl looking at him with big eyes, Munkustrap known that she was the Medici's daughter
"no, dear" he said kneeling in front of her "but Skimble did"
"can I ask him?" she asked
Munkustrap smiled "I think he will be delighted!"
He watched as the human kit run to the jellice
"so you were there" the sir "I wonder if you could told me something of that past"
Munkustrap shook his head
"I'm sorry, but I can't" he said "you have everything you has to know into your books" he smiled at him "and I'm told that you have a wonderful memory!"
the man laughed "touché!" he said
The Medici's family is a very important Italian family who rules on Firenze and then Tuscan from 1434 till 1737. Just to understand they have Leonardo da Vinci as ambassador and many very famous artists work at the Medici court (as Michelangelo)!!!! So I think they will know the Jellices if they were real....(ok I'm crazy I know...but it's funny!)