#sharkbait demons raise olwyn

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Oh my goodness can we have more of tiny Olwyn with her demon and angel parents? That is just too adorable!

Sure thing, anon! I agree, it’s just too adorable!

Thenvunin, Uthvir, and Kel belong to @feynites. Eda belongs to @palindromekomori.

Sometimes, Nanae and Papae have to leave. Not because they don’t want her anymore--they make sure to tell her that, every time it happens--but because there are things angels have to do that little girls can’t be there for.

It must be hard being an angel, because then you have to do both Adult Things and Angel Things, and that seems like a lot of responsibility. And it doesn’t matter what Nanae says about not being an Angel--of course they are, they’ve got pretty wings and they’re super nice and they kiss her on the forehead every night before she goes to sleep.

It is always hard, if they’re gone overnight. The fear creeps back in, that maybe Nanae and Papae have had enough too. That she’s just too sinful, and even angels can’t see a reason to stay around her anymore. 

She knows it’s silly. They always come back. They promise they will, and angels can’t break promises. That’s something everyone knows. 

So Olwyn gives them big hugs, and lets Papae squeeze her as hard as he wants--Papae doesn’t like to leave either, and that always makes her feel a little better, because it helps her remember they’re going to come back. And Nanae always walks her through what she needs to do, if something goes wrong: how to contact them; how to draw Nanae’s picture, and how many times to say their name to make them come quickly.   

But there is one thing that Olwyn loves, when Nanae and Papae go to do Adult Angel Things, and that’s going over to Eda’s house. 

Eda is the prettiest person Olwyn’s ever seen--Nanae and Papae aren’t people, so they don’t count, Olwyn thinks, so she doesn’t think that would hurt Papae’s feelings. Eda’s got freckles, just like Olwyn, but she’s got so many more of them! It’s fun to try to count them all. Between the two, Olwyn thinks they’ve got as many freckles as all the stars in the sky.

Eda’s house has a yard, and that means that Eda has room for a dog. The new house that Nanae and Papae moved into with Olwyn has a yard too, and that means she could get a dog. If it was ok. And if Screecher didn’t bully them. Screecher doesn’t like new things.

But Eda’s got PoPo, and PoPo is a mabari, which is the smartest kind of dog in the whole world.  And Eda makes hot chocolate, and she wears soft sweaters and has big woolly blankets and the two build giant blanket forts in the living room and watch nature shows about wild animals in the forest and the jungle and the ocean.

Nanae and Papae always read her bedtime stories, before she goes to sleep.

Eda can’t read her stories, because Eda lost her voice a long time ago. Eda talks mostly with her hands, and the way she moves and smiles. She teachers Olwyn how to read hands, and speak with them too. 

It’s ok that Eda can’t read the stories, because Olwyn reads the stories instead. She sits snuggled up against Eda and PoPo and reads as well as she can--and Eda doesn’t ever get mad that Olwyn doesn’t know all the words, and has to read some of the big ones slowly. 

Sometimes, Olwyn wakes up in the middle of the night to Papae carrying her to the car to go home. Nanae says it’s because Papae misses her so much that he can’t stand to be away from her.

She thinks that might be a little silly.

And Papae always reminds her that Nanae missed her too. She knows that, of course. That’s why Nanae always checks all the locks in the house, and drives the car to make sure it’s safe. 

Olwyn loves her parents. She doesn’t care that her parents are different. She thinks that makes them even better, because they’ve got pretty wings and do magic.

And so when a new girl transfers to her class and shows Olwyn her lucky feather, Olwyn knows exactly what it is. It’s a different color than Nanae or Papae’s feathers. It’s blue and green and shiny.

“It’s my Papae’s,” Kel tells her, before carefully putting it back between the pages of Henrietta Hedge: Girl Detective for safekeeping. 

Olwyn nods. “My Papae’s wings are white. And my Nanae’s wings change. Sometimes they’re brown with little gold speckles that are the same color as my eyes, see?” She holds her eyes open as wide as she can, while Kel leans forward to investigate, “And sometimes Nanae’s wings are all shadowy and whispy.”

Kel smiles, “My Babae doesn’t have any wings. But he’s got a motorcycle.”

“Nanae had a motorcycle, but Papae says it was too dangerous for little girls, so now we have a minivan.” Olwyn sighs, “Are motorcycles fun?”

“They’re loud.” Kel supplies.

“Wanna eat lunch together?” Olwyn whispers, and points to her lunchbox, “My Nanae let me have an extra pack of fruit snacks.”

Kel grins, and Olwyn gets that funny little flip in her stomach, like she did when she realized she liked Adi, the Vashoth girl at her old school. Her mama and papa had gotten mad, when she’d told them about Adi.

But Olwyn thinks that if she told her Nanae and Papae that she maybe wanted to marry Kel one day, they’d be ok with it.

And she thinks they’d like Kel a lot. Because she’s pretty and smart and is really good at soccer. 

After all, Kel’s got a parent with pretty feathers too!