Raile sighed when they walked in to find Kalina snoozing on the entry bench. “I told her she needed to rest.” He couldn’t help but smile, though. Kalina was quite cute when she was asleep. Leilah went upstairs to get changed, and Raile started on dinner. He was making something easy, a pasta dish that was mostly prep work. Once the prep work was done, Raile ended up coming over to Kalina, and picking her up. Despite the fact that Kali was taller than he was, he was quite capable of picking the blacksmith up with relative ease.

“Gods this Rosenite thing never gets old,” Raile muttered. He held her close, and in her sleep she wrapped her arms around him, putting her head on his shoulder. Raile took Kalina to her room, and carefully laid her down, tucking her in. “I’ll come get you later, when dinner is ready.”

As he left the room, he realized that Leilah never came back. The merchant frowned, and found her moments later in Piper’s room, picking up toys. “Leilah…” Raile said with a half smile. “We just talked about this. You’re almost doing too much.” He came into the room, and looked around. “It’s practically spotless already….you’re spoiling them.” He chuckled. “Lei…come help me with dinner. And by help, I mean sit with me while I wait for it to finish. You need to relax.”

Of course, he was the last one to be talking about relaxing.

Kali had her arms wrapped around Raile and she let out an exhausted yawn as she mumbled, “You know she’s a fucking liar.” She knew her sister way too well to know that Lei was just going upstairs to change. It had been quite a while already since she heard her voice. “Mmk,” Kali smirked and fell back to sleep easily enough.

Leilah was humming away as she put toys away and folded clothes now, “Oh!” She jumped at Raile’s voice. She tilted her head. “Isn’t it? They are good girls both of them almost always keep their rooms clean. I already picked up the nursery already too. What good babies.”

It was a mom thing that much was clear as even Angela tended to pick up things she saw on the floor when she was visiting. “Am I really spoiling them though? I just don’t want them to hurt themselves in the dark.” Not that they would they were always in bed at good times as it were. They were good girls for the most part.

“Okay…” She sighed and took his hand as he led her downstairs. “Was I really hurting anything by cleaning their rooms?” Seeing something out of place she quickly went over to straighten it out. Once she saw the look on Raile’s face she quietly plopped herself next to him. “It’s been a busy five years… Hasn’t it?” She looked over at him. “The girls are wild and smart… and now we got Judith and Raven too. It’s going to be a whole adventure.” She cutely plopped her legs up on his lap as she leaned in her chair. Her feet kneaded at his belly as she gave a smile.

“I don’t think we would have had the girls if Kali hadn’t destroyed that casino boat.”