Private Finished Meeting Family

"Ooh, la, la... I do like him... he's a real live one." Celeste remarked with a saucy grin in response to his noble comment.

"Are you sure he's not French, Zori?" Celeste laughed as she helped herself to a piece of fresh bread, ripped a piece off, and started buttering the corner.

Shaking her head at her aunt's teasing, Zora felt definitely relieved that everything seemed to be going alright.

"Stefan is not French, but his mother is Freyja... so the same thing, I guess," Zora chuckled as she looked at Stefan and smiled, her hand squeezing his thigh playfully.

"The Freyja?" Celeste stated, visibly impressed as she studied Stefan, giving him the once over again as she openly sized him up. Finding little fault in what she saw or in how he was treating her niece, she nodded.

"A formidable goddess from what I've heard," she remarked approvingly. "Do you have any siblings, Stefan?" she asked as she offered them more tea.

At the mention of the Valkyries being like older sisters, Celeste could only imagine the ribbing Stefan took as a teen.

"Sounds like a typical god's household. My fiance's brother's girlfriend is an Olympian," she stated, barely getting through the mouthful that describing Harmonia's relationship to the family was.

"I guess it was the same kind of thing, but instead of Valkyries, it was fauns and the Charites... " she laughed.

"How about your father? Is he still part of your family?" she asked as she put some blueberry jam on a piece of the bread.

"The only boy among female warrior types? Mon Dieu... You have my sympathies," Celeste stated jokingly, though, despite the jest, the sentiment was real. She could very easily imagine what he went through.

Hearing Celeste's question about Stefan's father made Zora it up straighter, she was also curious, though when she saw ... or more intuited that it was maybe a touchy subject, she laced her fingers through Stefan's, offering silent comfort.

"Celeste," Zora said as she deliberately tried to move the focus off Stefan for a bit. "Would you happen to have a copy of your wedding gift registration somewhere. I seem to have lost mine," she explained.

"Oh, of course... let me go get you a copy, from the study" Celeste replied as she went in search of another copy for her niece.

Once she was out of earshot, Zora leaned in and kissed Stefan's cheek. "How are you holding up?" she asked, concerned that Celeste was prying too much.

Grinning when Stefan kissed her unexpectedly, Zora felt herself relax. She was glad that he was okay. She had been afraid Celeste's line of questioning might make him have made him uncomfortable.

"Naughty boy," Zora whispered. "Stealing kisses like that..." she joked as she lightly chastized him.

"Here it is... found it," Celeste called out triumphantly, returning with a piece of paper in hand. "Remember this is just my wish list. We haven't set a date yet," she remarked cheerily.

"Thanks. It'll give me an idea ... or twenty ... for when the time comes," she remarked as she pocketed the list.

"Is Roldan around?" Zora asked curiously, referring to Celeste's husband.

"No, he's at work... helping get the sea King and his merpeople settled in and all that," she said as she puttered around the kitchen before sitting down again.

"Can I get you two anything else?" she inquired. "Wine, more bread, something else to eat?" she asked them curiously.