<span style="font-style: italic">Even before Akmon had been banished he had loved playing around with Ari's head. He smiles cruelly when Ari wracks his brain in order to figure out who he's talking about. Akmon couldn't imagine a more fitting career for his favorite daughter. Nothing said in the prophecy about his brother willing to aid in his girl becoming Queen, the ruler of the land of the Nile. Before he can do to much more thinking a fist makes contact with his head, sending him staggering back into the solid shelving unit behind him. A second later he's wearing one of the watermelons Ari had purchased as a hat. It doesn't take much to figure out that his nose is broken by the pain that comes from it when he gingerly touches it. He shoves the clerks aside that try helping him before vanishing into the night himself. Never mind the wine he had come to get.</span><br/><br/>Stella quietly paces around the apartment, careful to not wake either Ashley or Cheryl, who's sleeping on the fold out bed. She had offered that she and Ari would sleep there, but Cheryl wouldn't hear it. When he appears with a melon in hand, she can sense something's wrong even though his voice and body doesn't give it away. "Ari, what happened," she asks softly.