Chapter 280 There is no understanding Emory Wu.
In the underworld realm, the deity of lies, was complaining for the third time that he was now officially bored.
"Bring the girl back, maybe she will do another shocking thing."
"Nobody invited you Cepti and no one is forcing you to stay. if you are bored return to your realm or find humans to mess around with." Lythia told him.
"No, it's so much better to stay here and irritate you Lythia. By the way, maybe you and I should work on something together, darkness and lies we would make a strong pair."
A bright light light shone in the palace and out of it a new deity stepped out. One who looked exactly like the deity of lies looked when he appeared, just before he changed back to his real form. "Every year you say it and every year she turns you down. But you never quit, it's amazing to see you work this hard at something Cepti. Then again, your words cannot be trusted by any of us."
"Nobody invited you either Atha," Lythia said to the new deity, "Light and darkness should never mix, Those were your words before you kicked me out of our father's palace so what brings you to my palace?"
"I defeated you and you left with your literal tail between your legs sister. I did not kick you out." The deity of light answered and took one of the fruits from the platters.
Lythia's staff lit up, a bright red flame was emitted from the ruby on the top that caused the other deities to cover their eyes briefly before adjusting to it. "Would you care a rematch?" she asked the deity of light.
"Oooh, a fight, I like this much better, quickly Lythia, unleash your power of blood curling darkness and let the creatures of the night dance in overwhelming blood lust." Cepti, the deity of lies rubbed his palms together gleefully.
The other deities expressed disdain for the deity of lies and they ignored his words. It was not uncommon for them to have such wrangles, but they kept their physical fights to a minimum because when they fought, the humans suffered.
In the human realm, on the blue star, Scarlet and Esong were arriving at the castle to prepare for the large christmas dinner which she would be hosting for family and friends.
He helped her out of the car and led by the hand inside, going to their private wing directly. The first thing both of them did was get into the shower to have a quick bath.
He was scrubbing her back with a soft orange loofah when she had a thought that?she shared with him.?"I thought we would be meeting your family first before taking a bath. I must meet your father in two capacities, as a governor of the blue star and his son's wife. It's weird that he and I have never shared more than two words."
"My father said that we should hold off on all official introductions until tomorrow. It's christmas and you should be smiling today, not conducting business or feigning politeness for the sake of tradition.?I personally think he wants to spare you the agony of having to be around my mother. She is brooding tonight which tells me that she is angling for a showdown. I will not give her the satisfaction of taking her anger or misery out on you."
She turned around to face him and asked, "Was your mother always like that?"
"I think so, but we just didn't notice it when we were younger. You always assume that other people live the same way you do until you visit another home and suddenly it hits you that it is not the case. Your family was the biggest eye opener for me."
"So, why does your father put up with her? I saw him, he has the appearance of a calm steady person. He was smiling all through the christmas carols while the wick_, your mother was frowning. How can you frown at such a joy filled time and with no good reason. Your mother has it all, I mean she is married to handsome minister, she is wealthy and from a royal household. She has a general and mecha warrior for a son. In addition to that she has two more children one in a military academy and another who is beautiful. She does not have to worry about food, money or safety. If my life was hers, I would be a very happy woman. Ask the dozens of women in the empire and they will all tell you that they would trade places with her in a heartbeat. Unless there is a hidden cause of her anger and vileness your mother might actually be as ill as I was. I promised myself that I would try to understand her but I don't."
"Don't try." he helped her out of the shower and slowly dried her body off with a towel instead of letting the machine which exuded warm dry air when one stepped out of the shower do it. With the machine, you simply stood still for five seconds and every drop of water on your body was sucked off."
Scarlet did not like the machine which they called the body vacuum because her skin was aways left with a feeling of extreme uncomfortable dryness after she used it.
She had also noticed that her skin would peel if she used it for more than a week in a row. When she asked her sisters, she came to a conclusion that this situation was specific to her and?for this reason, she preferred the ordinary hand towel to dry her body off.?She just hadn't realized that her husband had picked up on this peculiarity of hers.
After dressing up in comfortable clothes and light christmas sweaters, they both went looking for Justin first.
They found him running around the Su's living room, playing a game with Halley and Gregor. All the children had virtual devices connected to their eyes, hands and heads. They were running, jumping and rolling as if they were in combat training.
"No fair Greggy you are cheating." little Halley complained.
"Yeah cheating little uncle." Justin added to Halley's complaint.
"Ha-ha, losers." Gregor responded and chortled.
"I am going to tell dad." Halley said.
"What are they playing?" Scarlet asked Beord. He was in the virtual world as well but only his eyes were connected. He was keeping an eye on the children, who they came into contact with and ensuring they stuck to games meant for only kids.
"Sand robbers." he replied.
"I won't even ask." Scarlet answered. "It's time for dinner so everyone should just move to the dining room in the governor's castle." She smiled and pointed tat herself with a smile, "My castle." she added.
Her brother looked at her husband and he said, 'Oh yeah, are you forgetting something?"
"He doesn't care," she answered. "Do you?" she looked at Esong and asked.
"Nope." he replied. He had many titles already, the addition or?remission of the governorship title made no difference at all.
Esong helped Justin take off the virtual devices and then the little boy blatantly climbed on to his father's back and said, 'My feet hurt, I can't walk daddy."
Scarlet scoffed and laughed, was this not her same baby that had been running around and jumping like a little ninja a few seconds ago? Also, when did his way of addressing Esong go from rigid 'father' to happy sunshine 'daddy?'
"Don't worry, daddy will carry you everywhere you want to go." Esong told their son.
"Thank you daddy." Justin rewarded his father with a kiss on the cheek.
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