Embers in the Dark

Worshippers

After everyone either got settled into bed or went to their own hotel rooms that had been provided for them, courtesy of Arthur and Lilly, the couple and Lugh went right back to drinking.  They got massively malafoostered but they had a good time, at least.  After a while, though, the three retired for bed.

After tucking a passed out Lugh in on the couch, Arthur and Lilly stumbled drunkenly up the stairs, giggling like idiots as they tried to keep the noise down.  When they got to their bedroom, Lilly enveloped Arthur in her arms and kissed him passionately.  Her husband returned the heated exchange of kisses as they collapsed on the bed together.  After a couple rounds of making love, they finally passed out.

The hours passed and soon the sun was on the horizon, its warm rays shining through the bedroom window.  Lilly was the first to wake up and when she did, she was wrapped up in Arthur's arms from behind.  A smile graced her face as she moaned out softly.

Waking up in her lover's arms was possibly the best feeling ever.

Lilly rolled over gently so as not to wake up her darling husband and she settled against him, stroking his handsome face.  As she studied Arthur's unblemished face, Lilly smiled.  Now that she really had a chance to examine him, she realized he actually looked a little younger.  Lilly wasn't sure if that was the inmortality's doing or O'Callaghan's, but she wasn't complaining.

"Good morning," O'Callaghan said cheerfully in Lilly's head.

"Good morning," Lilly said back in her mind.

"Are you feeling well rested?"

"Yep.  Are you?"

"I cannot rest while I attend to Rose and Corvin's cleansing and imprisonment."

Lilly frowned.  "I'm sorry.  Is there anything I can do to help?"

"A little food wouldn't hurt."

Lilly nodded, kissed her husband on the forehead and crawled out of bed.  After dressing in her usual type of pants, shirt and boots, she brushed her hair and left the room to go downstairs.  When she got to the kitchen, she saw Tora, Vu and Sean in there eating breakfast.

"Good morning!" the three people greeted happily.

"Good morning," Lilly replied with a bright smile on her face as she sniffed the air.  "Oh, everything smells fantastic!"

As Lilly sat down and began digging in like a beast, the other three shook their heads and laughed.  "Lilly, we have not had a chance to really speak yet," Tora mentioned.

Lilly paused in her eating to look at the half Japanese woman.  "Yer right," the Irish female said with a mouthful of food.  "Tell me about yerself, Miss Tora."

"Well, I'm a demigod, like you.  My father's name is Byakko.  He's a white tiger god.  My mother was from a Navajo tribe in America but after a series of bizarre events, she relocated to Japan after her tribe banished her.  Then she met my father, they fell in love and had me.  She died in childbirth, unfortunately, but my father raised me well enough."

Lilly swallowed hard as she looked at Tora.  "Damn.  That's rough.  Is he still around?"

"In a manner of speaking, yes."

Lilly cocked her head to the side.  "Is that why ya have stripes in yer hair?  Were ya born that way?"

"No, those came later after my first shift into a tiger."

Lilly's eyes went wide.  "Yer a shapeshifter?!"

"Yes, but just as a tiger."

"And when was yer first shift?"