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Shey comes home with a small, sticky hand in hers attached to a chattering blur. She informs Auranel, Garan, and Adonais in no uncertain terms that they have all just become parents to an overwrought harpy child who can’t believe this is really happening. The new fathers refrain from berating Shey about such an irresponsible ‘surprise’ where little Neht might hear it, but he still runs away five times before they convince him, no, really, you can stay.

Later, they find that he’s hiding food. It’s everywhere, under his bed, in his drawers. It rots and molds and gets him sick until Shey sniffs them out. They don’t understand why, not really, until they speak with the matron at Honorhall and she explains hungry, starving children who never forget empty bellies. They give him his own little box with a lock and a key just for him, and ask him to promise to bring them anything bad and they’ll replace it with new food right away. He doesn’t always remember to bring it out, but he stops getting sick.

Garan is not his birth father, but he can teach him how to comb and care for his curls, which most often means untangling twigs, leaves, and burrs before any actual brushing can be done. Auranel shows him how to make sugary, doughy treats, peppering the child with flour until he swoops about the house and claims he’s a ghost. On request, Adonais changes all of his stories to have a small gray boy as its hero (and some nights, the villain), and convinces him to start singing by letting him pretend he’s a siren luring travelers to their doom. Shey brings him pieces of things from other lands and gives him too-honest answers to anything he asks, and so must also face down the wrath of his playmates’ parents who complain about the things he shouldn’t know but does already.

He has three fathers and a mother, and it takes all four of them to manage one small harpy child who throws beetles at Nords and tries to sneak onto the Singing Crow and can’t sleep if he’s left alone. His magic comes bright and early and he lives for some time with his adopted, noble uncle Alrek, who spoils him further and teaches him at least forty seven ways to light people on fire (and only four ways of putting them out, because that’s less fun). He learns telekinesis and telepathy from the Alfiq on Shey’s crew, and confounds everyone when he teaches himself levitation.

He lands himself with an armed-guard escort home before the age of ten, for singing off a nobleman’s eyebrows and face whiskers for implying something nasty about his upbringing and parentage. Shey couldn’t be more proud.

Neht’s Dierie Diarie Diry Journal

hello this is Neht and I got words in me now and WOW let me tell you everything because you are my new friend, Journal.

OK SO I GOT A FAMILY!!!  THEY ARE GOOD!!!  I LOVE THEM I LOVE THEM!!!

My Ma is named Shey and she is good to me and no one can be bad to me or she will yell at them.  She is pretty and nice and I can go on her ship more when I am big and can swim good.  A man said a bad thing about my best pa and that man got hit on his face.  her friend looks like a cat but she is not she is a cageet cajit cat person.  My Ma is my best friend and i live in her house and she gave me a bed and no little kids can pee in my bed because there are no little kids.  if she gets a sister for me, then that sister cannot have my bed, only the place under my bed.  I love my bed and my sheets they are mine.  She is not a pirate but she looks like a pirate.

I HAVE THREE DADS WOW!!!  They are Garan and Aura and Adonaïs and his name has dots on it.  My name does not have dots.  They cannot all be my dad, they got to have different names but they can’t have their name names, only dad names.  Auranel Dad can be my father because he is so tall, he is big like a tree, and Garan can be my dad because he is fun and Adonaïs can be my pa because he knows singing words like la ti da fa so la papa.  YES OK I have a father and a dad and a pa and a ma because I get all of them and you can’t get them I am sorry, Journal, but books don’t have families.

My father is a baker!!!   I got sad in my belly and I ran away to live with the rats because I thought no one wanted me but he said I could live in his house and he made me a cake and I ate that cake but he said I cannot eat it all at one time or else I will get sick so I did not.  He is a lot of years old because he is a high elf and his eyes are funny because he is magic, I guess.  I saw him and my Ma kissing but not on purpose and it was funny because he is TOO tall.  your pa is supposed to kiss on your Ma but kissing is gross.  My father is good and he makes chicken for me many days instead of only one day and I even got to break an egg and I didn’t get yelled at because I broke it and we mixed its insides up and we made scrambled eggs and I liked those eggs.  He does not have whiskers on his face.  When I am big, then maybe I will be as tall as him.

My pa is good and he knows lots of things and he is also tall but not as tall as my dad who is a baker.  My pa can sing really good!  WOW!!!  He knows how to play all the instruments and I saw him play them and they made good music and I cried because it was good but I was not sad, I was just happy.  he gets to be a man AND an elf and I am happy because someone was mean to me once and said that I can’t be both but you can be both of them.  my father needs to feed him more so he will get fat.  I hope he sings the best so that he can be the king of music.  Thank you for teaching me music words, pa.  I will learn all of them and then I will sing really good and then I will get lots of money and then I can buy seeds with my money and grow a flower and you can have the flower and be pretty.

I am proud of my dad he tries really hard and is good at numbers and I love him and he is my real dad i don’t care what that girl says he is my real dad and he loves me and I love my three real dads and I hope she dies.  He is from High Rock!  In High Rock, there are princes and he is not a prince but I hope he gets to be the prince anyway and then I get to be the prince also and no one can be mean ever to us or there head will come off.  My dad let me have a duck only it was not a real duck, it was made of paint and wood and it has a string on it.  he let me have a duck and a bird and a doll that is my little baby because he is fun and good to me and I love my little baby.  I wanted to give him a present but stealing is bad I guess and I had to put back the candle but then my Ma gave me the candle so he could have a present and that candle is in his room now and I gave it to him.  My uncle Alrik, I saw him, he has red hair and he is a prince I guess, he was talking to a man and I wasn’t supposed to be listening but I was listened and he said that Labels are unicorns.  MY DAD IS MAGIC!!!

I am happy and I will not run away and I love them.  They are good.

-Neht Orphelin

Ah… Here, actually…

Similar:Three members of the same sex I find attractive.

I see. But, sera… Perhaps I could help? I know some Restoration, and that wound looks very angry.

Oh, it's, it's really not so bad.  I-

[No, actually, it really is so bad.  Neht can't stand the thought of another scar, especially not one on his face.]

Tired of things being awful all the time?  Have an AU where things are only awful some of the time!  Shey, Auranel, Garan, and Adonaïs team up to raise one adorable little scamp, and Uncle Alrek drops in occasionally to be a bad influence.  Will Neht insist Garan catch a unicorn for him?  Will Neht decide he's a lion-harpy the first time he sees Shey transform?  Will Neht bang on pots at midnight and insist it's the music of the night?  Will Neht eat all the muffins?  The answer is yes.