Relene returned the hug with a smile while Vess wrapped all her arms around Arlokk and picked him up for a moment.<span style="color: #00ffff">"its nice to meet you too Grumpa."</span>Relene frowned and looked at Vess. "did you say it like that on purpose?"<span style="color: #00ffff">"yep. he gets all kinds of surely when his chickies all grow up and start dating since they have their mother's libido and grandma's inhibitions. we all started calling him some variation of grumpy when he set to chasing the boyfriends off, at my last count he had eight daughters and four sons... not that i blame him, they were living in Human lands then and Human men are generally pigs, especially when they are young."</span>the girls followed along and Relene sighed softly. "we started this endeavor in Gnomergan but apparently everything Gnomes do for a wedding requires family and Amere doesn't have any blood relatives left." she hopped onto the couch while Vess found a comfortable spot to stand.<br/><br/>Zelina shook her head and slowly released Karrie.<span style="color: #b30000">"I'm going to get off you now but i want you to stay on the couch."</span>she teleported back to her chair and shook her head.<span style="color: #b30000">"we are trying to help you be okay to go back to Rachel. fine, i will call Ras and he can tell you that we are okay."</span>she closed her eyes and called the native Ras.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>