2. The day is ending and there is a beautiful sunset. What do they do?
"Dad, want to play a round?" Jeb called out to him, waiving an odd ball D.G. had brought from the Other Side and going on about a game the youngest princess was teaching him and Azkadellia.
"Not right now, son. Maybe later," Cain said as he walked away from the central area of their little picnic on the riverbank and headed over to where Glitch sat against a tree.
As it was at the moment, the three younger members of their party were playing D.G's game on the edge of the river while the Queen and her consort talked privately in the gazebo, and Raw and Kalm hunted their own diner in the woods nearby. Only Glitch seemed to be without something to do, Cain having just fished contently in the river for hours and having his fill of fun for the day, so he thought maybe the headcase could use some company.
"Hey," he said as he sat down next to Glitch and casually wrapped an arm around his slim shoulders, "What are you doing all the way over here on your own?"
"Just," Glitch sighed softly, leaning into Cain, "looking at the sky."
"Wouldn't you rather go for a walk? Or maybe..." he looked down at Glitch suggestively, thinking of the famous spread of lakes at Finaqua, "take a dip with me in a lake later if the water's not too cold?"
"Nope! I want us to stay just like this." He said, putting his own arm around Cain's brawny waist and looking up at the overhead skies, "Just look at that."
Cain complied and turned his gaze to whatever had Glitch so entranced. The suns were low in the sky as the day came to an end and countless clouds stood out against the expanse of blue and the colors of the sunset. Low, rounded clouds heaped together to frame the edge of the mountains far away, while the thinner clouds above seemed to expand into lines and ripples, giving a depth to the sky that Cain couldn't remember ever seeing before. It seemed that even something as mundane as the setting of the suns was enhanced and enchanted in Finaqua; everything made more beautiful by the sky's reflection on the water's surface.
"I want to swim in the sky," Glitch said suddenly, voicing in his very Glitch-like way what Cain was thinking,
"I don't know about the sky, sweetheart," Cain said, tightening his arm around Glitch before rising to his feet, "but there's a lot of nice lakes around here that look like pretty much the same thing."