What does Home mean?

Time Pt:1

Layla and Aüley were married at the same time Kyle and Tiffany were.

It's how they wanted it.

Avery and Rebecca are just as popular as Lysle and Zhane are with the four morphs.

Brent built Lysle's house and, obviously, birthing in a bathtub isn't the most ideal method.

The clean-up is a bit of a hassle and none of the males can handle the smell for too long without gagging... or full-on puking, in Brent's case.

What does Brent come up with?

Tub liners that are disposable and, by disposable, I mean that they can be burned.

They have magnesium dust embedded in the fibers, along with aluminum powder and black iron oxide.

Even when they're drenched, you throw them into a fire and they burn like a dry Christmas tree.

All we have to do, now, is "remove" the afterbirth, drain the tub, toss the liner into a bucket and take it out to the burn pit.

I'm sure that the earth won't mind molten metal in a hole for a few hours.

There are plenty of volcanoes, as is.

Speaking of, for disposal of everyone's trash, Holly gets 3 gold for teleporting my dump truck to Hawaii's largest open volcano and raising the bed to dump our garbage into it.

It's a straight drop from the cliff and she only has to do it every two weeks.

$150 per week for five minutes of her time.

By doing so, her capacity for teleporting massive objects is soaring.

Oh, and Brent turned our hyperactive daughter's nose to coffee....

Great!

It's decaf, but you can't really tell because decaf has a little bit of caffeine in it and, even that little bit, in her shotglass sized mug, sends her into a zoom rush that goes on for a few hours...

It's fun to watch but, I worry about her heart.

Brent assures me that she's not suffering any excessive heart strain but, I still worry.

Brent read mom's mind and saw that my father drank sweet tea, that was gifted to him by someone he'd helped, before going to bed.

Caffeine poisoning led to his heart failing.

Humans' caffeine tolerance is terrifying.

If I drank as much coffee as Brent, I'd die in minutes, if not in seconds.

He mixes ½ coffee, ½ sweet tea and tops off his mug with cream.

I never miss an opportunity to tease him about his Royal British lineage.

Even if it's partly true.

Brent also dilutes Holly's coffee with milk and sweetens it with maple syrup.

Only enough to soften the bitterness.

Even so, she can teleport my dump truck full of trash, dump it, teleport it back home and then go directly to tackling Charlie or Mikhail.

They'll wrestle until she's pinned or she pins one of them, then they'll chase each other around until Holly crashes.

Usually, this ends with her curled up, sleeping in one of Brent's shirts in the dirty clothes.

Touch her while she's sleeping off a caffeine rush, I dare you.

See if you don't get an impromptu piercing in a very inconvenient place.