Last weekend ,the 3rd and last Ball of the Winter Season passed. It was uneventful. It was held by tKOSS and the Olympian 7 with the aid of the Diablo Trio and White Lightening Celestial 3. They all came together and threw a their Winter Blues Party. Everyone put their differences aside and the kitchens and the barns and the doors in the Village Green had opened up.

The hay bales and were set up with places to sit and be cosy and eat and drink. There was a skating rink at one corner and a toboggan slide ,at the other. Smaller versions run by the owners of the larger local establishments.

Everyone had to bring a dish of somesort. So, plenty to go around and plenty to choose ;each household brought two dishes. One was put on the buffet table that was arranged and kept topped up by the Royal Prime’s and her Lord’s household. The hosts were nowhere to be seen. Lt. Kharmrhan had no idea she had been found out as yet. Parian knew and kept a close eye on her. Something familiar about her, he couldn’t quite put his finger on it.

The Diablo 7 of : Ara D, Ardini and Aiessa were stunning and their outfits matched their counterparts : Casseia , Ara C and Indra. They each brought lush food and drink from their perspective heavenly homes and met up at the head table seated with Parian in the Center. Deciding that the long table wasn’t satisfactory at all for them to mingle and compare food and drink they asked if they could get a round table and sit beside their own counterparts. Parian looked at them all bemused. OF course they were going to change everything. He let them, they called in tKOSS soldiers and a quick conversion was done.

IN the center of the green ,was an odd Arc , it was double and tripled cords of ice and flowers. It has snowflakes and array of colours throughout that shone like stars and a circular ring like a little hedge of ice and flowers – some ice sculptures and the flowers intermingled. Midway , the bell rang. The ARC – sent out a whirl of light and whirling noise and the PORTAL from Orchaidia opened. The Summer Party in Orchaidia was full swing, The two worlds opened up and intermingled. The 2nd dishes of food were exchanged as offerings of peace and tranquility and unity between them.

Lord Xichan and Lord Zohan came through in attendance together. Light blue flowing matching robes with white and baby blue starlight headdresses. They were in love and defiantly held their hands. Ary had left Rosedrop World for Planet Orchaidia with the last full moon. Parian was afronted and upset for Lord Admiral Beaumont, who had disappeared. He watched as Lords from the distant lands , marched in with their Army of friends surrounding them. The clan was present in force to protect them. The higher tables looked and saw that from Rosedrop World only The Celestial / Diablo Councellors were present ,with the guards: none of the hosts of any kind were present, except Parian. Parian was there as Commander of tKOSS.

Lord Xichan and Lord Zohan had been expecting Ellarya and Yra and Giovanni to be all slapped in the face with their entrance. They didn’t get it. Aryc was worried ,he looked at Lord Zohan ,after the party and said that he needed to return to Orchaidia without him. Xichan went into the private powder rooms of the Village Green and transformed back into Araswati . She was still her lovely beautiful thin self and she was mesmerizing in any of her life forms as she was just that way. Lord Zohan and crept back through the portal with his small set of protective clansmen and left the party to continue. All the interplanetary hosts and guests ,mingled between the two worlds. Some enjoyed the winter festivities of Rosedrop World’s ambassadors and some enjoyed the summer beach and bbq , welcome break from the cold and ice by the Orchaidians.

Parian’s assute eyes , cunning and intuition new that wasn’t all to it. He had noticed that as Lord Xichan appeared Lt. Kharmarhan ‘s chair was empty and no where to be seen. As Arythenia came out of the powder room , with her lovely dress and wings array and fluttering, she forgot to remove tKOSS band from around her right ankle. Every member of tKOSS had one. Lt Kharmarhan’s had a special mark on it, placed by Parian , so he could always make her out if needed as she was his 2nd. Lt Kharmarhan and Arythenia were trading places. This was Ary’s way of trying to cause more subterfuge to the ruling Prime as this was once her position and she decided she wanted it back , regardless of the rules. What she wanted was what she got. ” I want , I want , I want “. When she was with Lord Beaumont- nag his life away with her wants and needs. NO wonder , he always found someone to ” DUMP” her on! Never satisfied and always a nag, actually , she was just an ‘OLD HAG’ , all round , bitter and resentful of anyone having fun and happy.

Elle would always look beyond all those traits and see the kind of person , she wished her friend to be and could be. Chase and chance after chance, day after day, but NO, it was not to be , despite all the help that Elle gave her she remained bitter and broiled , like a “butterball ” Turkey.

The Winter Blues Party went on without a hitch. The portal remained opened from mid-afternoon until the early hours of the next day, when as the suns started to rise and set in each off our twinned planets. The last of the party stragglers finally crossed back over into their own side and went home. The Pre-Fall or late Summer party of Orchaidia had hits of Autumn adorning their party. Swimming beach pool with a BBQ was in the place of the Ice Skating Rink and the Toboggan slide was a Zip run with Obstacle course for anyone who wanted to run the gauntlet.

Elle , Giovanni and Yra sat and watched it all on the their underwater Sanctuary. Parian had set up roving surveillance , that Giovanni had tapped into. He had caught wind of Ary’s plan from Lt Kharmarhan and he wanted to be sure that both the women in his life and mothers of his children were with him and safe. The children were with the team of Nannies and safe and the draklings and the full array of DRAGONS to fend for them and keep the Dragon Eggs safe. No one either dark or light would mess with baby draklings or darklings.

Giovanni was livid. He didn’t actually think that Ary would choose anyone over Lord Beaumont. Elle , he said to her, ” find him” . “You can. I need you to sing your song to him and see where he is”. She looked at him and started to “Cry”! You heard me singing ? , Elle whimpered out. Giovanni , said , to her” I CAN ALWAYS HEAR YOU”. He held up their hands and with his wings surrounded them both and said to her ” watch”. Their threads glowed and burned a deep dark blood red glow, an orange glow, a yellow glow, a blue glow and a green glow and they bound tight as he squeezed their hands together with his wings, one set of wings around their wrists the other , pulling her close and caressing her. His last set of wings, he held Yra’s hands.

Now he said to Yra, pass her your inner sight, that connects to me and we will all join together, to see ,”where is Lord Beaumont.” Sing for him ,Elle, this time, you are singing to find his hearts beats which will synchronize and connect to yours. He will only feel your heartbeats and me and Yra will strengthen your reach with our connections. We can do this only once , you will get a brief glance to locate his heart strings. This is done in the dark and you have to trust us both for it to work. You also, have to surrender to both of us , so the three of us become one and he grinned. The two ladies looked at him and it was Yra , who said, “Giovanni, really, we can read your thoughts and just put those thoughts away. “

Giovanni laughed and said to Elle, ok, on three: one, two, three and she Sung her little Lament for Steve. She felt him. She looked and saw him. He saw and said cried out, ” Elle , Giovanni, Yra come and get me” and The connection snapped. He saw them all and they saw him. He was trapped and locked in the STONE DUNGEONS.

Deep , deep beneath , the dragons keep , in THRC, are steps to the STONE DUNGEONS. Steve had been trapped by ARY, so she could go spend time with Zohan on Orchaidia. Part of the money rouse by Lt Kharmarhan was to steal from Steve. Ary had been skimming money off him for years and sequestering it in the deposit bank accounts. She had multiple aliases and multiple accounts, all kept and insignificant , low thresholds that would not ever attract attention from any authority on any planet tax collector. For Ary- these were labelled her Cayman Accounts , shelf tax shelters and co-operations to fool everyone.

Giovanni saw this and was livid , before Ellarya and Yra could say anything. HE said , ” see ” I was right to bring you both here. Stay here , until , I come and get you: me or Parian. There is a large ” Green House ” where you can fly and spread your wings. So, don’t worry. Everything has been taken care of, just in case. Elle , I set up this plan , as ” just in case ” ! Mrs. Haiden and the her team will keep all the households going and the children , will all think we are on one of my business trips. I am taking Parian with me , Ellarya . The Celestial and Diablo threesomes are around and will govern together and keep the peace. They are too busy being “girly” and enjoying patterns and popcorn , and crafting whatever that is.

He kissed them both and was off.

Elle burst into tears and Yra comforted her. Yra said, well. we are going to have to get Ary back. Elle nodded in agreement. Rosedrop World wanted its balance back and Lord Luckhan Zohan had no place in their world.

Elle’s Lament for Steve had done something else, it created a musical thread and vibration between them all. The vibration went out into the world and it reached Tristan. Tristan heard Elle’s Lament and decided it was time to remind her , who exactly he was to her, whether , she knew it or not.

Ellarya felt the vibration from him. Yra felt it too. Yra said, “who the hell , is that “. Elle looked at her and said that is Parian’s host, Tristan . Yra , said ” he isn’t that “Tristan” is he ?

Elle said ” of course he is” ! The Guy with the Motorwings! Yra, said,” you know him? “. Gee, Elle , he has a really bad reputation, you know. ”
Elle , nodded again! and smiled.

Yra , looked at her and said, Ooooo, you are in trouble with that one , you know. ”

Elle ,nodded and smiled again.

Yra and Ellarya looked at each other again, after that last nod and laughed.

Well , weren’t they just a pair. Mothers ‘ to be again. Babies on the way, children with Nannies. The fathers all out with another war , possibly interplanetary war ,on the way . They were cocooned in Gio’s water bubble sanctuary and talking about “Tristan Brandyn “. He would be pleased.

Tristan felt all the good vibes for him and smiled. Yes, he was gonna “ROCK “, Elle’s World! He was sure of it.

The last two twins were going to be his. She didn’t know it yet, but he damn well did.