Why.....? Why do these conversations always seem to have to happen in the middle of the night?! Come on!!

RW Abbey: Gatehouse Loft

This room is as wide as the one below it, if not quite as tall. The roof meets at a visible point above your head. There is a single window that looks out over the entry area of Redwall, but it is quite small and has thin pale blue curtains partially drawn over it. The room itself appears to have been very recently remodeled by a skilled craftsbeast and it also has been well furnished with a wooden bed frame that is complete with a head and footboard, two small chests of drawers, a simple chest sitting at the bottom of the bed and on the floor is spread a thick woven rug. The bed is just the size for two beasts to sleep in it comfortably and it is covered in a mid-weight blue blanket and made complete with two pillows. In one corner of the room, is a beautifully constructed baby cradle. The entire area has a very peaceful, secure feeling about it with few shadows but rather soft, warm light spread by several candles placed strategically about and a lit oil lamp hanging from the rafters.

Exits: Climb [Down] the Ladder

Leon and Caleb; DoraRose and LilyMoore; Emyuil: mice.

Midnight. The loft is quiet, but suddenly there's the sound of somebeast hammering on the trapdoor.

DoraRose groans and covers her head with her pillow. She is NOT opening that trapdoor, unless it's an emergency, people.

Leon frowns, he sighs as he looks at the door, the guards can handle it he figures, unless a healer is needed he is not getting up.

"Please, open the door," a distraught voice begs. It's Emyuil! "This is...urgent, please open up!"

DoraRose groans like a dying thing and burrows farther under the covers. Seriously? "C'm back in the mornin'." she calls, but it's doubtful he can hear it, her head under her pillow and all.

Leon frowns "Yeah he can talk to a guard...which neither of us are."

"This is urgent," Emyuil insists, pleading. "The guards can't help, it has to be at least one of you."

Leon sighs, "He is YOUR brother" He says sounding tried.

DoraRose growls and flops onto her stomach, glaring at the innocent headboard as her pillow falls ot the floor. "Seriously?" she grumbles, then looks over at her husband. "Hey, I don't wake up beasts in the middle of the night. I was dreaming of my sister, too." She sighs, then sits up and pulls a robe around herself. "Okay, what is it?" she calls, looking very upset. LilyMoore stands up in her bed and wails, "Moma!" And another whimper can be heard.

"I had a dream," Emyuil whispers sheepishly. "We have to go back. Quickly."

Leon rolls his eyes, "A dream." He mutters and tries to go back to sleep.

DoraRose groans and goes over to the trapdoor, opening it and glaring at her brother. "You're doing good at getting back to us hating each-other. Get up here and tell me about it." She moves over to her children and picks them up, taking them over to her side of the bed and laying them down there.

Emyuil ducks his head a bit remorsefully as he enters, sitting down by the side of the bed on the floor. "It was from Martin. He said we need to go home. He didn't say why."

Leon listens somewhat, "You are home" he mutters and looks at the two dibbun as Dora lays them down.."Well Dora is..you could live at the abbey too"

DoraRose nods and strokes the fussy Dibbuns. "This is now my home, Emmy. Do you mean back to our place in Tuscani?"

"Yeah." Emyuil gulps a bit at the memories and closes his eyes, a bit embarassed. "There. He showed it to me, and it was fine, but there was a sense of something being wrong. Waiting."

Leon sighs, he does something he does to calm the Caleb abd Lillymoore and hums a little tune to help them go back to sleep.

DoraRose raises an eyebrow. "Oh. That's....odd. And a little creepy. But if Martin said we should, then I guess we should. Right, Leon?" The twins are almost asleep again, Caleb's little Martin the Warrior doll----ah, I mean, action figure, laying almost forgotten on his mothers' pillow. LilyMoore is clutching her little footed ball.

"Can we leave tomorrow?" Emyuil asks hopefully, a bit meek as well. "That--that'd be nice." The dream haunts him, and so do the other dreams he's had...Something cold coils inside his heart for a moment, then is gone.

Leon frowns, "You and him you mean?"

DoraRose nods, then hesitates. "Well, I did mean we should listen to Martin in general." She pulls a set of wooden soldiers from her pocket and goes over and sets them in the basket of the twins' toys. "I feel like the Oracle of Delphi when trying to figure Martin out."

"He meant the three of us and the twins," Emyuil mumbles. His chin dips to his chest and he falls asleep.

Leon frowns "I wouldnt be going..I have to stay here"

DoraRose sighs and crawls back under the warm covers, hugging the sleeping LilyMoore close. "I know. We need to figure out what to do. I wonder what's *yawn* going on....?" she drifts off to sleep, still pondering the questions in her mind...

Leon nods and also slips back into some needed sleep.

Thanks for reading! Sorry it's a bit short.  :)