The Unified Soul

To The Snow!

Time passed yet again, and Airis continued living happily with her family. During that time, Airis noticed that Aaron was working much harder on his surprise plan, but she was mostly at Lucinda's magic shop learning new forms of magic with just a little bit of her own little flare. 

Lucinda was constantly impressed by how Airis picked up on magic and how she could create potions so easily. She watched as Airis never made a potion according to the book, but in much different ways than Lucinda could make it, and even then the potions Airis made were better than the ones than Lucinda had made.

Airis, however, would never touch Lucinda's staff, nor would she read the spell book that Lucinda had. She avoided it like it was something that could curse you with a single graze of her finger. When Lucinda asked her why she wouldn't touch her staff or spell book, she would always that the reason was something she didn't want to get into.

Though she respected that answer, Lucinda couldn't help be curious about the little girl's reasonings of why she wouldn't divulge the real reason, but she didn't want Airis to be closed off.

This afternoon, Airis was happily woken up from her nap by Celestia licking her face restlessly. She smiled and sat up in her bed, throwing the blankets off her body and heading downstairs for her usual after-nap snack: A bowl of strawberries.

As she headed downstairs, Airis could hear Aphmau doing yoga, a hobby she picked up from Katelyn a while ago.

"Hi, Mama!" She called out, startling Aphmau from her recording of her yoga routine.

"Oh, Airis, I didn't know you woke up." Aphmau said smiling, "Did you enjoy your nap?"

"Yep! Where's Papa?" All of a sudden, Airis was picked up from under her arms. She turned her head and saw Aaron holding her while chuckling.

"I'm right here, Airis." Aaron chuckled then looked over at Aphmau, "Still trying to record yourself doing yoga?"

"Sure am. I'm gonna show Katelyn my progress."

"Why? Just go over there."

"Because I'm shy doing yoga in front of her. She's an expert. Plus, it's a surprise for her."

"Oh, all right, babe. Well, I'm gonna go hang out with the guys for a bit."

"All right. See you later, hun."

"Papa, can I come, too?" Airis asked.

Aaron looked confused, "You wanna come with me?"

Airis happily nodded, "Yeah! I wanna hang out with my Uncles, too! Please!?"

Aphmau sighed, "It's all right with me. Why not let her hang out with the rest of her family?"

Aaron nodded, "Okay then, you can come along."

Airis chuckled as Aaron carried her out of the house and over to Dante's place. As soon as they got there, Airis ran inside to hug her Uncle.

"Hi, Uncle Dante!" She said.

"Hey there, Airis! How ya doing?"

"Great!"

Dante picked Airis up and squeezed her like any uncle would do to his spoiled niece. He looked up at Aaron.

"So, still not enough?" Dante asked.

"Not even close. I've been working my butt off on these extra jobs and I don't think I'm gonna have enough for us to go...." Aaron looked at Airis, knowing that he could possibly spoil the surprise, so he stopped before he could say it.

Dante got the message and set Airis on the floor, pushing her towards the kitchen, "I just got some flavored popsicles, Airis. Why don't you go see if there's a strawberry flavored one?"