Diana awoke to the sound of the girls crying. She sighed. The tension 
created by all the excitement in the warren seemed to be spreading, even 
to the girls. They had awoken a number of times throughout the night. 
Trey handed her  Darreni while he sat and bottlefed Treanya. She loved 
watching him with the girls. All her fears were quieted when she saw how 
much love shown in his eyes when he looked at them.

He lay a sleeping Treanya beside her and soon he carrried breakfast in, 
just as she lay a sleeping Darreni beside her sister.

They quickly ate and Diana watched him dress.

> "Where are you going?" she asked.

> "Going to work with the trainees, love," he answered.

Diana's face fell. She had wanted to get out again. She loved the girls
but she was going nuts up here with just them for company.

> She moaned.  "Does that mean I'm stuck up here again all day?  I need to 
> find someone to take care of the girls before I go stir crazy."
> 
> He looked at her puzzled.  "Diana, love, I can take care of the girls.  We 
> don't need childcare during the day.  You can go back on patrol whenever 
> you're up to it."
> 
> "What?" she asked, sitting up, blinking.

She couldn't have heard him right. He had just said she could go back on 
patrol while he took care of the girls! How in the world did he plan on 
doing that. Training and taking care of the twins would be too much.

> He sat on the edge of the bed and kissed her.  "I'm quite capable of taking 
> care of the girls.  The only thing I lack is breasts.  I'll have to make do 
> with bottles."
> 
> "Really?  But, won't they get in the way?"
> 
> He laughed.  "Who do you think took care of the kids at Telnor, dear?  If 
> M'ressan at Keldarra can do it while training, so can I."
> 
> "He doesn't have twins," Diana pointed out.
> 
> "No, he doesn't.  But, he also hasn't raised three kids."  He kissed her 
> again.  "If you could transport one of the girls down for me, I'll take 
> them both from there."

Diana quickly packed up some things for the girls and then got dressed 
herself. They mounted their dragons and each with a twin took off for the 
training area. Diana dismounted with Darreni in her arms and took her 
over to Trey.

"Do you know how much I love you?" Diana said to him, kissing him soundly.

"A whole hell of a lot, I hope" Trey responded with a twinkle in his eye. 
"Now, off with you! Go see David about getting back out on patrol....if 
they will give you a clean bill of health at the med center."

"They will, I know they will" Diana practically skipped away with happiness.

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First stop Diana made was the craft halls. She wanted to see if the 
riding harness for the twins was done so she could surprise Trey with it 
tonight. The shopkeeper assured her it would be done later that afternoon.

She then headed for the med center where she looked for D'ssarian but 
didn't see him anywhere. She finally saw Koda and hailed her.

"Koda" Diana called out "Have you seen D'ssarian? I need a check up so I 
can hopefully go back out on patrol and I can't seem to find him."

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Diana then went looking for David after she received the clean bill of 
health needed to begin patrol again. He was not in his office and after 
asking around, found he was gone but would be back around lunchtime.

Diana saw that it was close to lunch and headed over to see if she could 
catch him there, as well as possibly eat lunch with Trey. She saw him 
among the trainees, and grabbed a tray and then headed over.

She noticed the girls being passed around quite a bit and was happy that 
the arrangement Trey had made seemed to be working out. Suddenly she 
noticed David and Minty walk in.

> "Did you talk to David?" he asked, then waved at the door where David and 
> Minty had just come in.  "Speak of the devil."

"I haven't had a chance yet" Diana replied.

> The two young folks joined them and the trainees, many of whom were the 
> same age as David and Minty, or older.  Trey made introductions, then 
> turned back to Diana.
> 
> "Well?"

Diana smiled at him and then turned to David and Minty. "Minty, you ready 
for your old patrol partner back?" She glanced at David "The med center 
cleared me today. So how about it?"

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NRPG: Tag, Les!"

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Diana spent the rest of the afternoon watching Trey and the trainees, and 
keeping an eye on the girls. She had found that she missed them that 
morning and knew she would be dividing her days very equally among the 
girls and Trey and patrols.

She gathered up the girls and kissed Trey as he was answering one of the 
girls questions. "I'll see you at home". He nodded.

She headed for the leather workers shop and he smiled when he saw her 
coming. "Its ready Diana" Diana beamed, knowing it would give both her 
and Trey more freedom and a better sense of security with this baby 
harness. 

"Can I see it?" she exclaimed, her face very excited.

"Only if I get to hold one of those beautiful girls" Dabron replied, 
grinning.

Diana smiled and handed him Treanya and then examined the harness. "This 
is perfect!" she exclaimed.

He then handed back Treanya and helped her to carry it out to a waiting 
Zena. They buckled on the straps and secured the girls in. Diana then 
headed towards their apartment to start a good dinner for Trey. He 
deserved it.

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After dinner, Diana showed Trey the new harness and saw his face light 
up. "This was a wonderful idea, Diana" he said, hugging her. "Lets switch 
it to Koroth so it will be ready by morning." They did so and then heard 
Treanya crying, awakaning her sister. They looked at each other, Trey 
heading for the kitchen for a bottle while Diana headed to get the girls.

They were in the living room feeding the girls when Trey looked at Diana. 
"Roth says R'chein is here." He got up and headed for the door to let him in.

"R'chein, what brings you to Marrid?"

R'chein sighed.  "It's not good news, I'm afraid, Trey.  Can I come in?"

"Of course," Trey said, stepping back.  "What's going on?"

R'chein walked into the living room where Diana was feeding the other twin, 
looking worried as she had overheard the conversation at the door.  R'chein 
sat and waited till Trey had done the same.

"First, Ophelia had a stroke yesterday."

"Oh, dear gods," Trey said.

Diana saw Trey's face at the news. At one time, the love she saw was 
still there for Ophelia would have bothered her, now she knew it was just 
part of what made Trey so special.

"It wasn't a very bad one, and I think she'll mostly recover from it.  But, 
that wasn't what I came here to tell you."

Trey exchanged glances with Diana.  "Go on."

Diana was worried, and she could tell Trey was too.

"There was a wraith attack today.  B'rin's wing was sent.  Something went 
wrong when he teleported to the battle.  He never made it."

"Never... made it?"

Diana saw trey's face go white as he absorbed the news. She quickly set 
Dareeni down and went over to him. She looked at R'chein as he looked at 
Trey.

"I'm sorry, Trey.  B'rin is dead."

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