"I can't believe the entire yard, if not the entire city is angry with me over last night." Ryan sat on the ground beside the standing Mark.
"We are pretty protective of our goddess and you pissed her off."
"By defending her from being watched?"
"Was that what you were doing? I sounded more to me like you were decrying her favorite sport."
"Sport?"
"Fucking. Fucking and being watched while doing it, mostly. She limits her activities to the Grove, so those who don't want to watch don't have to. See, Elunara is an energy creature; she absorbs all the love and affection that someone is willing to give her. It is food to her, or maybe it's like beer to us. She doesn't have to have it, but boy does she like to get drunk off her ass on it. You cannot judge her on this; it's who she is. Everyone knows it, especially her husbands." Mark sighed.
"Every year, for her birthday, a group of us go and let her play with us like little mice in a maze. We always get our share of the cheese. For her eightieth, there were eight of us, we had a fucking orgy, and it was amazing, she was practically glowing by the end of the day. I hear tale of when she was a mission specialist she fucked like twenty guys in a single day. She's completely crazy, but we love her for it."
"I might puke." Ryan bent over.
"Most would. Those of us that are used to her and her crazy ways love her for it. Even her husbands. Hell, especially her husbands. Grogek used to torment the guys that spent a day under her care, because they were so afraid of him that they gave him extra effort and work. Once we realized it was just part of their game, we worked even harder to get chosen as her playthings. Get in line or stick out of it. We don't care, but you better not interfere."
Elunara paced Tulani's studio. "I can't believe the nerve of that useless little twit."
"Now Elunara, you know you can't change everyone."
"I never try." Sinea began to cry, so Elunara picked her up. "Now, now my sugar baby, momma's not angry with you."
"Yes, but she knows you're angry."
"Annoyed."
"Annoyed." Tulani continued her sewing of the details. "In any event, I'm glad you did the Grove last night instead of tonight. I'm almost done with the dresses and I need to do some last minute fittings."
"I don't know why. Your work is always flawless." Elunara shuffled Sinea around. "I think she's hungry, want me to get it?"
"No thank you. I want to nurse my sweet little baby as much as I have time for. Five months old, and she's already so big." Tulani sat aside her work and took the baby from Elunara. Tugging her shirt open, she began the process. I had Darguni, and you had Lulu and Emaline. Now for my second baby."
"She's so pretty. A little pale for a Draenei, but what can you do?"
"There are plenty of pale Draenei, some are even completely white."
"True. But you're so blue." Elunara ran her fingers over one of Tulani's horns. "And just as beautiful."
"Oh, you." She switched Sinea to the other side. "Perhaps if I get her down for a nap..."
"I thought you had fittings."
"I can always make time for you." Tulani giggled. At the knock on the door, Tulani tugged her shirt closed. "Come in!"
"Momma Tuly, I'm sorry I'm late, I got stopped by Mayby." Lulu brushed her hair back and kissed Tulani on the cheek.
"What does the harpy want?" Elunara sighed.
"Don't know, but she was looking for you just the same."
"Of course she was. I'll go placate her, or she'll have half the town looking for me." Elunara disappeared out of the door.
"Oh, Mommy Tuly, it's gorgeous!" Lulu wandered around the dress on the stand. "It's so... perfect."
"The dress is done. I don't need you to try on this."
"Then what am I here for?"
"Are you prepared for your wedding night?"
"Momma Tuly!" Lulu blushed. "Well momma and I had the talk, and I'm taking the stuff..."
"No... I mean these." Tuly tugged back a curtain. "It's time to find the perfect accompaniment to the rest of the outfit." She winked.
The heat in Lulu's face was almost unbearable. "These are... these leave nothing to the imagination."
"Oh, I disagree, they add to the imagination. I have happy customers all over the world. Your first time is going to be spectacular, but let's liven it up a bit, shall we?"
Elunara didn't have to go far to find Mayby. "What is it now, you nutter?"
"I swear, sometimes you act like we aren't friends."
"Mayby, you only need me when you want something out of me. Spill it."
"I do... not?"
"Seriously, think long and hard about it."
Maybe paused and considered. "Ok, fine, maybe I'll ask you out for tea someday, but that's something else altogether."
"So...?"
"Please don't be angry with Ryan."
"That's... not a track I expected you to take."
"Ryan is my nephew, his mother is my sister. He was just raised differently from you."
"Mayby, I was raised differently than I act. I was supposed to pious and pure."
Mayby stared at Elunara as if she had been slapped. "W- Seriously?"
"My mother is Tyrande, what do YOU think?"
"That's... SERIOUSLY?"
"Stop saying that. After my rocky teen years, I found my first dick, and it went from there."
"Wow."
"Yeah."
"Anyway, please don't stay mad at him. Please? He's just so young, and foolish to the ways of the world. My sister was devastated when her husband died, she refuses all attempts to help her move on, she believes her husband to be her one and only."