FictionWillLiveOn

Epilogue:       There was a private banquet held in the great hall the likes of which the palace staff had never seen.       All the servers were asked to politely not tell anyone of some of the odder things they might see, though Elena was not specific about it.  She even went to so far as to select the servers herself, using her seer's powers to find the most likely ones that would not gossip.  They were also told in no uncertain terms that they were to do their best not to make any of her new family members uncomfortable, no matter how odd they behaved.       The place settings were formal, but the dress code was not.  Precious shifted

Last Run       The marriage ceremony was informal and short, but neither Johnny nor Aiko minded.  They thanked a distracted Yazeed, now listening bemusedly to the abrupt silence in his head apart from his own thoughts.  Though he did say he heard an occasional ruffle of wings or the rattle of a sword buckle, but that was it.       The first person they found after they left the temple was Steve and his family on the way back from the local market.  They had been shopping for ingredients for their cooking business and spotted the happy couple accompanied by their rats and Precious voluntarily hitched up to her cart loaded with heavy books.