Claimer: I do hereby claim all rights and responsibility for the characters in this series of vignettes because the Amaranthine Saga is mine. (Which means I should probably behave myself since anything I say or do could be taken as canon.) Indulge the lot of us, especially the exceptional one.
431
Tale Bringer
Nobody had noticed at first. Why would they? Kyrie rarely strayed. But out-of-bounds incidents kept adding up.
By some quirk of heritage, barriers were useless against the boy. He strolled right past them.
Kyrie offered his hands to Rake, who butted him affectionately.
Deece asked, “What’s happened?”
“The Elderboughs are early.”
“Did they need help?”
The boy shook his head and cast a longing look at Jacques, who was only too happy for an excuse to leave off crunching his abdominals. “Well?” he prompted.
“Ninook and Joonta brought two new children.” And in an awed whisper, “One is a baby.”
Posted: June 17, 2022
Prompt: Early, suggested by gg
Words: 100
Summary: Jacques Smythe brazens his way into Stately House and shows no sign of departing. Like it or not, Lord Mettlebright has himself a butler. An Amaranthine Saga Serial. [Humor, Drama, Family] Begins here. You can suggest a prompt here. To scroll through archived chapters, use the Lord Mettlebright’s Man tag.
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Ohhh…new babies!
NOW I’m caught up.
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