Ala rested on the pallet, she thought she'd be able to nap while her son did but it just wasn't working out that way, so instead she simply lay fully dressed, if you could call her that considering when was wearing typical cliff clothing, there relaxing with her eyes closed

Dia was full of grins as she headed for the cave Asy pointed her too. She didn't seen any doors, so she didn't know if she should knock or what. She just, peered into the hole, and called out. "Ala?"

Ala opened one eye, that voice was familiar, but most definitely NOT from the cliffs, she sat up and looked past the other furniture, her head is what's mainly visible as she looks at Dia in disbelief

Dia finally spots Ala in the cave. She's practically beaming and she waves. "Ala!! Is it okay...to come in?"

"Dia? how the heck did you get here?" she asked climbing off the pallet and standing up, her entire body now visible as she approaches her friend

Dia seen Ala's new outfit and whistled. "sexy." she mused. "I wanted to see you! Asy brought me here, helped me escape Kazeha." she giggled.

Ala got a lil closer and she smirked "Ok, now I can tell what Torvil meant by 'Asmodeus got a Life' "

Dia blushed bright red. "What did he tell you?" she asked, forgetting Torvil had seen her and Asy at her home earlier that day.

"Nothing, just that he ran into Asmodeus and that he got a life... then he headed back out to the hunt again" she said stopping a couple feet in front of Dia

Dia smiled, still red from head to toe. She chuckled. "He came to see me yesterday." she squeaked out, ready to burst with her exciting news, but wanting to not be overly anxious. "Is this the cave you told you got at the Cliffs?"

Ala nodded "Yes this is our place at the cliffs, Our home away from home if you will"

Dia glanced around. "It's lovely. Seems very cozy." She smiled.

"It's pretty average, no plumbing, no electricity. Just a fireplace, candles and such" She smiled "And of course the very few necessities we bring from home"

"It sounds like a fun getaway." She smiled still looking at things. "how far are we...from home, tho?" she asked curiously, having no idea where the cliffs even are.

"About a 12ish hour flight from the shop, in a completely different direction then Kazeha" she told her

Dia's eyes widened, "wow, I had no idea it was that far." she said quietly.

Ala chuckled "That's the main reason we stay here more then one day when we visit the cliffs, especially after I got pregnant and had Surion"

Dia smiled and looked around, "where is Surion!? Is Torvil here, too?" she said cheerfully.

Ala pointed across the room to where Surion's playpen was, clearly visible through the side was a sleeping Surion. "Torvil is out on a hunt with the other males, there's a game shortage in this area"

dia smiled, "can I see Surion?" she asked quietly noticing he was asleep.

"Course" she said making no attempt to stop her from walking across the cave

Dia quietly approached the playpen. "he's so peaceful looking, when he's not spitting up." she mused.

Ala chuckled "You are the only one to experience that so far"

Dia blushed a little. "I did bring it on tho, didn't I?" she chuckled as she watched the baby sleep.

Ala nodded "Yup, by bouncing him, but he's getting better about it"

Surion stirred

Dia backed away from the playpen slowly. "I hope I didn't disturb him." she whispered.

Ala chuckled "He's been asleep since lunch I'm not surprised he's waking up" she reached in and picked him up then grabbed his blanket and headed for the fur-covered pallet which currently had two other larger versions of Surion's blanket on it partially bunched up

Dia smiled watching Ala with her baby and smiled. "you aren't bothered that ... dropped in, are you?" she asked meekly.

Ala chuckled "No I'm not" she lay the blanket out and put Surion on it then reached for a diaper, the wipes and one of the new outfits she purchased in the marketplace "It's actually kinda lonely here without any other adults in the cave to talk to, all my in-laws are rather busy and my daughter has elder duty"

Dia smiled, feeling a bit better about her surprise visit. "How long are you staying here for?"

"Not sure entirely, the hunt is supposed to last a couple days, then there is more family to meet Surion, currently only the females have met him since that's all that's home... Vina is expecting too but she might not give birth for a couple weeks or more yet so unless something massive happens we wont be staying quite that long" she said changing the diaper and putting a soft deerskin outfit on her son

"Wow, I didn't know Vina was pregnant too." She chuckled, "oh, my mom is eager to see him too, when you have a chance, I know you are busy now."

Ala chuckled "After I get home and rest for a day or two I'll come to Kazeha again" she said with a smile

Dia grinned. "that would be awesome."

Ala smiled and picked Surion up one awake sucking his thumb and clinging to the blanket. Neither wore normal to when Ala was in Kazeha or at home clothing

Dia looked around for a place to sit, "He sure likes that blanket, doesn't he?" she mused watching him cling to it.

Ala chuckled "Yes, doesn't like to be without it actually" she walked over to an armchair and sat down placing Surion in her lap "Have a seat" she invited her friend motioning at another chair

Dia nodded and went to sit down. "thank you." she as she got comfy. "comfortable chairs." she said.

Ala chuckled "They are, though they used to be much too tall"

"They did?"

Ala laughed "Come-on I'll show you" she said getting up again and gathering her carrier and putting Surion in it with his blanket

Dia nodded, "ok" she stood up and followed Ala

Ala led her out of the cave and along the ledge that led downwards and into the main areas of the cliffs "By the way... Welcome to the Cliffs, I don't know if it has any other name that's what Torvil always just called it"

Dia smiled, "thank you. I actually thought you were at home, I had no idea you were here." she said quietly as she followed Ala.

Ala chuckled "Got here last night we left in the midmorning" she neared the bottom and decided the best way to show her why furniture would be taller would be to head into the market so she turned in that direction "Um you shouldn't have too many male problems, least not today any male of age to hunt is out hunting, unless they are a newlywed like my nephew, but what's here mainly right now is the females and their children"

Dia giggled and blushed a little, not sure if she should mention that her little problem is solved for now.

Within a few minutes they reached t eh edge of the market and Ala stopped, the females and children were plainly visible with very very few exception most of them were over 7 feet tall

Dia looked around in wonderment. "wow...so many tall people.' she said in a low tone, just amazed.

Ala chuckled "Only people around our height here are either white-hairs like Torvil is or is a white-haired offspring. Everyone else is 7 feet or taller"

Dia chuckled. "This is weird...I've never been a 'short person' before."

Ala laughed "You get used to it around here, all my in-law's furniture, well lets put it this way to be comfortable at the kitchen table I have to sit on it"

Dia laughed. "this is just too fun." she continued looking around in awe at the tall woman...and tall children.

Ala nodded and chuckled and headed towards a stand of crystal dragon statuettes

Dia laughed "this is a riot. no wonder you love to come here." she mused following Ala.

Ala laughed "You haven't seen anything yet I'll show you something else in a bit" she noticed the stand's owner coming towards her with a bag "No I dont want more change please" she tried waving him off

Dia composed herself and wiped the tears from her eyes. She watched the shopkeeper and wondered what was happening.

Ala smiled at the booth's owner and pushed Dia away from it "I think I'll avoid that booth for a while" she said with a laugh"

"what was that about?" Dia asked curiously.

"I bought a statue from him last time, unfortunately I had no claw or scale so I paid for it using a Water Crystal... It cleaned out his change and he still wants to give me the rest of the change" she said meekly

Dia chuckled. "water crystals worth a lot around here?"

"Oh a thousand or more golden claw" she said with a small laugh "I didn't want the change the first time I still don't even though he pushed the other change into Torvil's hands last time"

"you must be rich around here, eh?"

Ala laughed "I'd rather not be, Water Crystals I make, they are from my own body, but they are extremely rare around here, hence their value, there is only about 5 of them in the whole of these cliffs, 3 of them reside in the hordes of my in-laws, one is in my daughter's hands and the 5th is in the treasury since that booth owner exchanged it in for currency"

Dia nodded. "wow, is it hard to make them?"

Ala stopped and turned to face Dia, they were in a fairly empty area of the market "Dia watch" she said her eyes shifting green as she looked directly at her friend

Dia stopped and watched

Ala held both hands out palm up. On one she created a small ball of water around the size of a ping-pong ball, over the other a ball of green energy of equivalent size "The Two strongest of the Kerrsalian powers save for healing right?"

Dia nodded, watching Ala's powers

Ala brought both of her hands together facing each other cupping them together, there was a small flash of light that peeked out of the tiny spaces around her hands, Ala's eyes returned blue and she opened her hand to reveal a water crystal the size of a ping pong ball, it was almost perfectly clear with a pale blue hue

"Wow" Dia mouthed. "its that easy? its so...beautiful, too." she said reaching her fingers towards it, but pulling them back remembering she needs to stop touching everything.

Ala laughed and took her friends hand and dropped it in "Here, I have about 5 dozen of them at home maybe more"

Dia's eyes grew wide, "really? wow...but I should pay you for it at least!" she opened her satchel and rooted around, knowing those gems Asy had given to her to pay for that fabric were in there somewhere. She found a couple of them and held them out to Ala, "here, can I at least pay you with these?"

"I don't want payment Dia, it's a gift." She said softly

Dia smiled, "really? are you sure? I have some more of these in here somewhere." she said looking in the satchel as she shook it.

"I am sure Dia, much as those shinnies are tempting I don't want you to feel like you have to pay for a gift" she said

Dai put one in Ala's hand. "then its a gift from me. I know you like shinnies. and I got a handful of these from..." she smiled just as she said his name. "...Asy."

Ala chuckled "Ok Dia" she said playing with the crystal in her hand a twinkle in her eye. "Another place I want to show you" she said with a chuckle and headed out and away from the market and down a path

Dia wrapped the gift from ala in a hanky that was in her satchel and she put it away gently then followed her friend.

Ala smiled and stroked her son's face only to have him root, after a short pause she positioned him to feed and covered him then continued till they came out of hte path and there was a small building ahead of them, most of the roof of it had no covering

Dia looked ahead and seen the building. "what is that, ala?"

Ala stopped "That is the announcement building, if someone goes in there and speaks, the entire of the cliff-system can hear them, it's what's used to announce meetings and such..."

"wow, that's really neat. do you know how it works?"

"It amplifies anything within it, it's how it was built, there's nothing high-tech about it...." she explained

Dia was fascinated by the building, but far to shy to really want to get close to it. "wow"

Ala leaned closer to her and whispered to her

Dia blushed a little and giggled.

she smirked more of her Dragonic side coming through

Dia was still blushing

Ala chuckled "Dia, I told you I let the dragon inside loose here, I meant it" she smirked and turned from the building starting to head down the path again

Dia smiled and nodded "true true. Its good you have a place where you can. I imagine its fun to get in touch with your more primitive side, ne?"

Ala laughed and faced her friend holding her arms out "It doesn't look like I have?" she said mainly meaning her outfit

Dia laughed, "I thought you were dressing sexy for your mate." she teased.

Ala laughed and shook her head "No that's what the leather number is for, this is just ordinary everyday wear here, or didn't you notice" she grinned

Dia nodded, "I did, I was just giving you a hard time. Its strange for me to see you in this environment." she said, smiling as she continued walking with Ala.

Ala chuckled "Well it is the place where my mate's family is from, I've been trying to get to know more of that side of me, and being here from time to time helps that." they re-entered the marketplace

Dia smiled, "Its good you have that opportunity. I would probably be killed on the spot if I went seeking the other half of me." she joked, but was serious at the same time.

Ala nodded "Very probably" she was completely serious as they moved back through the market which was becoming emptier

Dia looked around a bit. "not as many people out now?"

Ala shook her head "Most of them head homewards this time of the evening, get their kids to bed and get intimate..." she chuckled as they neared the far edge of the market

Dia raised a brow. "they do it ... with the kids watching?"

Ala laughed "Only if the kids aren't smart enough to get their butts out of the room" she headed for the ledge again

Dia was a bit stunned. "so its the kids' responsibility to not watch? whoa..."

Ala laughed "Don't forget kids here are like Vin and Lene and Lene's kids" they approached Ala's cave once again

Dia laughed, "oh yeah."

Ala re-entered the cave and sat on the pallet removing the carrier and her son whom she left on his blanket on her bed for a moment.... "Soooooo....." she said turning to Dia

Dia sat in one of the uber comfy armchairs. "Thank you for the tour, Ala. This is a nice place."

Ala smirked "Dia are you going to make me sit here and smell and ask...."

Dia's eyes and ears perked up. "huh?"

"Have you forgotten I can smell when someone has been intimate?" she laughed

Dia grinned, and seemed to...glow...but was also beet red. "I didn't know you could smell...that" she said quietly

Ala laughed "Yes I can" she picked Surion up and put him back in the playpen turning it's mobile on before re-joining Dia in the armchairs

Dia stood up, overflowing with excitement, and she watched Ala sit down. "Ala, I have the best news!" she said very excited, holding her hands together against her chest.

"Ok well before you faint on my cave floor how bout you tell" she grinned

Dia spun around, as if she were light as a feather, doing what looked like a pirouette. "Ala, I'm in love! Truly madly deeply in love!!" she almost shouted it.

Surion squawked at the abrupt loud voice

Ala chuckled "I can see this, can I guess that it's someone tall thin and foreboding?" she asked using the best description of Asmodeus she knew in her mind

Dia crouched a little when she heard Surion squawk, so she sat back down, on the edge of the chair. She was beaming. "He's tall, handsome and so kind and gentle." she said in a dreamy tone, as she thought of Asy.

Ala chuckled "Yup, definitely twiter-pated" her eyes sparkled and she sported a wide grin

Dia smiled, continued beaming. "He loves me too. He actually sought me out. Came to see me yesterday." Dia fell backwards into the comfy chair with a happy sigh, "Ala, I love him so much."

Ala smiled "Well he wasn't exactly who I thought you might fall for, but at least perhaps you wont be chasing every Kazehan male around and getting extremely distracted?"

Dia smiled, "you know, he's not who I pictured myself seriously falling for either...but...I seen him without that ... robe...and its like day and night. I know I shouldn't be that shallow, but.. that's how it was at first. I see him now in the robe and it doesn't matter...but it did at first. And ... my urges are curbed for now too, I can actually be around boys and not want to jump them." she chuckled. "but until my sense of smell finishes developing, when I get urges, the boy pheromones will drive me nuts."

Ala chuckled "You will never cease to amaze me Dia. Oh I got a note from Estra, she has your egg safely at the manor, whenever you can go again you can pick it or your hatched Pae, whichever comes first up from her"

Dia smiled, "that's great news, I will have to find a way to thank her for me."

Ala smiled "I think letting Estra observe that particular egg is payment enough she sounded rather excited" she paused " Sooo, you are completely infatuated with Asmodeus... obviously you've been intimate, what's next?"

Dia smiled, "I'm very grateful that she's there." And just hearing Ala mention his name brought the dreamy look back to her face. "I ... don't know but, what we did...was the most amazing thing.. words can't describe how amazing." she rambled on thinking about her time spent with Asy just a few hours ago. "He says something about 'bonding' but I'm entirely sure I understand what it is."

Ala nodded "I realize you are in love, but perhaps you should investigate the full meaning and what's expected of 'bonding' before you enter into it" she was thinking only of her friends wellbeing

dia nodded, "I will. Asy says its like marriage, but more....its for eternity. He said its complicated, too."

Ala nodded "Definitely something to know what you are getting into before you do it" she smiled softly and stifled a yawn "Oh geesh this day is catching up with me, Dia you are welcome to stay the night, you can either crash on the couch, or share the pallet with me" she said glancing over to see her son had dozed off again

"You don't mind if I crash here with you? I'm exhausted after the day I had, and I don't want to bother Asy just yet as he's only been back to work for a couple hours."

"Course not, then you can keep visiting and we can continue our conversation in the morning" she got up from the chair

Dia smiled, "Thank you, Ala."

Ala nodded "So you can sleep there" she pointed at the couch "Or over here, Torvil isn't due home tonight" she motioned the fur covered pallet

Dia giggled..."that fur looks awful inviting." she said shyly.

Ala laughed "Trust me it's soft and very comfortable" she said heading for the pallet blowing out most of the candles as she went leaving it very dim in the room "That door over there s the bathroom should you need it, the hole in the ground is the toilet, ya just squat over it" she let her friend know as she picked up the 2 blankets

Dia slipped her big boots off and set them off to the side. "thank you Ala, I was so excited to come tell you my news today, you are the first actually." she said as she headed towards the bed. "you don't this...do you? the bed just seems...bigger and comfier." she said meekly.

Ala chuckled and shook her head "It's fine, here" she handed her one of the very soft black and red blankets "Lots of room, these beds are designed for DLs"

Dia smiled and took the blanket. "its very soft." she said quietly. She pulled the cloth Asy gave to her from her pocket and then laid down, covering herself with the soft blanket Ala offered and, held on to the cloth, close to her, like Surion was holding to his blanket.

Ala chuckled "I hope it is, it was made by Visha, it's the same as Surion's just larger" she said with a chuckled and lay down covering up and blowing out a nearby candle yawning

Dia chuckled, "she makes comfy blankets." she said, yawning. "thank you again, ala."

"Welcome Dia" Ala murmured almost completely asleep and then asleep

Dia yawned again, and put Asy's cloth up by her head, so she could sniff it and have dreams of him. She was asleep before she even knew it.