Softness before the Hard

"Time for lunch," Garan said, coming out of the house. He had come home during his break from the barracks, a habit now since moving in Alterra.

After all, they were apart so often back in Terran, and he couldn't bear being apart from her for too long now. 

In his arms were the two babies, taken from the neighbor's house on his way there. This was probably to force her to leave her plants. This wasn't needed though as she had already ran out of mana. 

Althea smiled warmly and placed a chaste kiss on his lips, before turning to smooch the babies' cheeks. 

"Mwahhmaaa~"

"Gugughhhmmn…" 

She chuckled and gently pinched their soft cheeks, before taking one of the babies into her arms as she looked at her husband. "How's the training?"