Trip Around The Sun – Jimmy Buffet/Martina McBride
Yep, today is the last day of the dry season in the year of 1993 and Isaacs 13th birthday. Isaac's last transitional marking fell on the end of the wet season. In other words, the seasons have reversed pretty much completely during the course of the last 8 years.
To find the reason for this, it is necessary to zoom out and have a look at the planet they live on, Somnetia (more commonly known by its less scientific name, "The Dreamworld Planet"). Somnetia is to us an "earth sized planet", and the second planet away from their Sun on the outskirts of the Adsimulaticius galaxy. And like earth, it has an axial tilt of 23,5 degrees which is the cause of their seasons.*
* Earths axial tilt is 23,4 degrees, so its not excactly the same, but similar enough to not notice any difference.
However, it differs from earth in that it every 400 years or so, the planets axial tilt over the course of 8 years gradually slants the other way, hence the reversal of the seasons. Once this shift is complete, the seasons will not change until it happens again in about 400 years time.
The young Isaac had done really well in school, in spite of a rather troublesome start, and would graduate from elementary school (6 – 12 yrs.) with the best grade possible. This should give him a solid foundation to also do well as he begins junior high school with the other young teenagers (13-15 yrs.). Isaac has already inherited the eccentric and heavy sleeper traits from his father, and a strong dislike for anything outdoors from his mother.
Good morning and happy birthday, Isaac!
Life is good when you can have an excellently cooked grilled salmon for breakfast, thanks to there being two chefs in the house now.. if only they knew how to clean! A dishwasher for the household might be an idea.. but they need to wish for one first. Those are the game rules...
Off to school he goes. This is Isaacs day, so focus will be on him.
Outside the school yard Isaac spots his good friend, Samira Mørch-Engebakken. She has blue wings, because she is an angel-werewolf hybrid. With Isaac it is a little more complex. He, as well as his brothers Aaron and half-brother Billy, are angel-human-magician hybrids. Hmm....
Isaac is happy to go to school in such a wonderful school building. ;) Billy and Aaron is not there, because they are assigned to the old school building.
At home Natalie thinks the place is filthy, and decides to do some cleaning. They're going to have guests over for the birthday party, so it should look clean and presentable.
Oh, I had forgotten all about it being excursion day for the kids, because of all the tumultous happenings of yesterday.. Looks like the kids are in good hands, with Teresa Mater as their teacher. Isaac is also in the bus, though he is not visible anywhere...
And I see now why Teresa was with them. They are going to the old mauselom in the Monastery Gardens. The Monastery Gardens lies between the Monastery to the north and the Nunnery to the south. The mausoleum in the garden is only for nuns and munks.
The Monastery Gardens is also home to the towns Vault of Antiquity, with lots of ancient knowledge available to the towns population.
To my surprise, Isaac leaves the excursion much earlier than the other kids. Billy and Aaron are still there. "Teresa Mater is so nice. She let me home early because its my birthday!" he says. Oh that Teresa, she is truely a saint...
Poor Ingun is still nervously looking out the window to see if Bianka is anywhere nearby. Yeah, she better not come and wreck Isaacs birthday party, that old hag..
Isaac is listening to the music box, so that he doesn't notice the ice cream truck that just parked outside..
Ragnar is in the car behind the ice cream truck, honking for it to get out of the way...
Ingun is helping Natalie clean around the house, and is doing laundry.
Aaron and Lenore had ventured away from the Teresa and the other kids in their own game of hide and seek, and had lots of fun inside the mausoleum. This finally fulfilled Aarons wish of becoming best friends with Lenore, and Aaron immediately gets a new wish to hang out with her. Is something in the air, besides the smell of old bones and mummified corpses? :P
Meanwhile at the Twilight Tavern on the opposite end of town..
"I just want to dance" Friederich, Natalies grandfather, says to the bartender. The other two people there, that you can see in the mirror, is Ecaterina Dascalu-Vasquez, a vampire, and Avigail Pammy-Vasquez.
Avigail is Isaac and Aarons grandmother, and Ragnars father. You can tell she is related, because there is no other family where those facial features are prevalent. Atleast not that I know of...
Billy and Aaron just came home from the excursion. "Wow, how clean this place is for a change!" Aaron thinks.
Isaac immediately thinks its time to arrange his birthday party. Isaac invites over all the kids he knows from school, as well as his father Ragnar and his girlfriend Ina.
A couple of human boys, Leon Sundal and Roar Tvedt are the first to arrive.
Isaac is happy about the cake. "Did you bake it, auntie?" he asks. "I wish, but n-n-no, this is one is from the c-c-cake and sweets store" Ingun answers.
Isabella Pammy-Vasquez, Icaacs cousin, is the third guest to arrive on the lot, but manages to get in the door before the two human boys, because, well, she can fly. Isabella has aged up to a teenager since last time we saw her. Isabella has yellow wings, because she is an angel-magician hybrid.
Ina is seen exiting her and Ragnars home in the background.
Lenore (in the light blue jacket) also arrived, this should make Aaron happy. Ingun finds it appropriate to laugh at Isabella for some reason.
It doesn't take long after Lenores arrival before Aaron starts getting some interesting thoughts. Really, Aaron? Really? :D Well, you better go over and talk to her, then.. ;)
Oh, more people arrived that weren't invited. As far as I know, they are not friends of the family, so I don't know what they are doing there... Ok, the one to the right, Annlaug Bjerknes, is a paparazzi.. who is the celebrity here!? Actually none of them is a celebrity, so why the paparazzi is there, I don't know...
Isabella is impatient and left the party, calling it boring before it had even started..
Ina wants to prepare Isaac for his teenage years by telling him about love and girls. "Good girls are like unicorns" she says. "A rare find that can show up when you least expect it!"
Ingun gets nervous from all of the people gathering. "Why couldn't Isaac just have a small celebration with only us in the household? I would like that so much better..." she thinks.
But Ingun is the first one to celebrate when Isaac is about to blow out the candles!
Isaac: Ow ow, my arms and legs are stretching out! :O
That looks like it could hurt...
Isaac inherited the inappropriate trait from his mom, and Ragnar does his best to make sure his son won't be able to hear properly on his right ear for a while.
Isaac: Oh, thanks a lot, dad...
Ina is really amused at Brit being the Queen of the Chessboard. ;)
Isaac is not though, he thinks its stupid. "Playing queen at my birthday party! I am the king here!" he says.
The kids, as well as Ragnar and Ina, go outside to play and hang out by the seesaw. Aaron sits inside doing his homework.
And the birthday kid actually decides to go to bed early. Alright, good night then, Isaac!
"Bye Natalie and Aaron! It was a cool party, but I think I should be home now" Ina says.
I look outside again, and figure out that Lenore must have a brother. The kid to the rights name is Thorleif and he has the same last name as Lenore, Johansen-Knutsen.
Thorleif leaves the party shortly thereafter, saying he had a good time, while Samira and Lenore decide to do their homework out on the lawn. "Isaac has a nice home" Samira says.
Aaron goes outside to play with the seesaw. His father Ragnar is still there. Samira continues to talk nicely about their home. Going outside also fulfills Aarons wish to hang out with Lenore.
Aaron talks about how he wants to take a course in painting, an unfulfilled wish he has had for a very long time now, but he hasn't gotten around to ask his mom about it. Ragnar hears what he says, and promises to his son that he will pay for it, so that Aaron can finally get his course and learn painting!
I am then notifies me that Thorleif just aged up as well. So he is not just Lenores brother, he is her older brother. This is Thorleif outside his and Lenores home.
Unexpectedly Ingun goes outside to join Aaron on the seesaw, but then he goes off it, because he wants to play in the treehouse.. Ingun is afraid of the dark, and thinks the outside area could use a little more light to it. It is just barely that one her of alters now breaks through, but she has learned some techniques already by Sara to keep them from coming out. She wants to stay as Ingun as long as they have visitors.
Ingun thinks its better to go back inside again to eat some more cake. Natalie has already gone to bed.
Billy walked outside and wanted to ask Ragnar to read him a bedtime story, but was to late because now Ragnar decides to leave and go home.
"Oh, drats" he thinks, "better go inside and finish my homework then. Ingun will probably read for me later".
Lenore must have snuck off the lot without any notification, because now only Samira and Aaron are left outside (Aaron is inside the treehouse).
Well, Billy doesn't even have to ask Ingun to read for him. "I want to read you a b-b-bedtime story after you have f-f-finished your homework, B-B-Billy" she says. Ingun has learned that she loves to read for the kids. She has never had any of her own, obviously, her mom wouldn't allow it. Ingun, being a supernatural, still has a lot of life left to live, so it is by no means to late for her.
I think Samira just finished her homework, and says its time for her to go home as well, her werewolf eyes glowing in the dark. And just now I get the notification that Lenore is going home, but she has already been home a while... She is already on her way to go to bed. She just has to do what all the other kids are doing, check under her bed for monsters.
Poor Lenore has monsters under her bed...and neither her father or brother is at home to comfort her. Lenores father is a single dad, living alone with his kids.
Ingun turns on the music box for some soothing music. A tiny moment where she can dream away and forget about being nervous and anxious for a while.
Once Billy has finished his homework, Ingun reads for him as she promised. Natalie can hear her sisters voice in her sleep, and it makes her dream about cooking and food. :P
Ingun kisses Billy good night, and Natalies pleasant cooking dream is interrupted by dreaming of someone whom she thinks should be arrested and locked up...
Ingun is really happy to stay at her sisters house and to read for her children.
She just has to make sure the sink is not leaking before going to bed...
Nighty night Ingun. I hope you sleep well.. tomorrow, if Natalie remembers what Elisa told her, she might take you for a little walk in the woods...
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