Well here we go. Now, Im going to try my best not to lose you during this part of the story.

Honestly, there are days when I dont completely understand it. As you remember, Kalana had difficulty having children. The seventh generation heiress of the Goldweaver line had such a difficult pregnancy and delivery that she was forced to stay in the hospital. This left Toren in the position of having to retake his seat as head of the council. Aiden proved to have quite a short fuse during those days.

Toren did his best to keep his son-in-laws spirit up. But in truth Aiden wasnt the only one suffering from Kalanas unexpected bad health. The entire family including Toren was suffering.

Kalanas twin sister Xanthe was having the worst trouble adjusting to her sisters condition. Matters became worse for the family when Tristens health began to fail. With Aiden and Toren both out of the house, the job of caring for Kalana and Aidens young sons fell primarily to Xanthe and Rhiannon.

But Tristen proved that she had some fight left in her. The family had already begun to prepare itself for the worst losing a daughter and mother. But then miraculously one morning, Toren found Tristen in the nursery with Athan. The doctor discovered that oddly Tristen had made a full recovery. All Tristen could remember was that the night before shed had the strangest dream of a woman with silver hair and blue eyes. And that there had been something oddly familiar about that facethough she couldnt place it.

The doctor who came over to inspect Tristen was a new resident in Loros, Dr. Sun Liris. Dr. Liris was placed in charge of Kalanas care by the newest hospitals Matron Healer Arianna. Arianna and Dr. Liris were both from Talon a land renowned for its healers and the legendary Liris family of which Sun was apart. Their arrival in Loros took us all by surprise. And this is where things get complicated. Try to keep up Aleron.

One afternoon Dr. Liris had gone to check on his patient, only to discover her lying dead upon the floor. He had quickly summoned the Matron Healer into action.

Wait a minute? Thats Arianna? But didnt you say Tristen saw a woman with silver hair and blue eyes in her dream? Yes, I did and this is the woman that saved Tristens life that night. Does she look familiar to you Aleron? Because she should. Yeah she does, but I cant figure out who she is.

No way! Yes way. Arianna is none other than Orianna Vijayakar daughter of Rhiannon Vijayakar and death. She was meant to be the curse placed upon the family because of Torens actions in the war against Gal. However, because Rhiannon never viewed her daughter as a curse, death decided to take Kalanas life instead. Even if wed found a way to save Kalana, death would have taken one of the main line in payment. At least he would have if not for the actions of his daughter.

As the daughter of death, Orianna Vijayakar was blest with several different abilities. The first was the ability to travel to the afterlife and the second was the ability to travel through time. Orianna wanted to lift the curse on the Goldweaver family, and so she agreed to move to the afterlife if her father would lift the curse from the family. Death agreed. However, death did not keep his promise to his daughter and the curse remained on the family, but while Orianna was in the afterlife he accidently let slip the only way to lift th curse for good. Orianna then used her power to travel through time to stop her father and save the family once and for all.

Orianna saved Iliris Goldweaver from dying during childbirth. Iliris was the twin sister of Oloros Goldweaver, Orianna then took up the charge of protecting Iliris and her family from her father. Using her knowledge of the afterlife she was able to keep Iliris family from becoming cursed the way Oloros family had become.

Death was furious with Orianna, and so he stripped her of the ability to travel through time. However to his surprise and dismay he could not strip his daughter of her immortality nor her ability to reach the afterlife. In his anger, he turned Oriannas once black hair silver white. It was Iliris who first called her Arianna. which means silver. Ironically, Orianna, her given name means gold.

So Arianna had waited patiently for her time to come. And when her father tried to claim Kalanas soul Arianna gave chase. She informed her father that the Liris or Silver line was still going strong and that Sun Liris, was prepared to challenge deaths right to curse Oloros family.

Death reluctantly agreed to return to the mortal realm with his daughter. Sun Liris had to choose which hand death had hidden Kalanas soul in order to reclaim her from the afterlife and remove the curse from the Gold Line. Sun proved successful correctly selecting that Death had hidden her sould in his right hand.

And so death returned Kalana to life and removed his curse from the Loros family. He returned to the afterlife to rule over the dead until generation ten of both lines reached maturity. For at that time, his daughters would replace him. One is silver the other Gold. Orianna and Arianna.

After returning Kalana home to her family, Arianna Vijayakar took her leave to return briefly to Talon to fetch her apprentice. She promised to return shortly so that she could continue to watch over the Liris line. I would continue to watch over the Loros line with the help of my apprentice Orianna Vijayakar. For on the day that Kalana was returned from the afterlife the family name was changed to Loros.

Okay so Orianna and Arianna are the same person even though one is forever old and the other is forever young? Thats confusing!
Heh. Yeah. I know kid believe me I know. Well the family was ecstatic to hear that Kalana was coming home. And no one was happier than Aiden and the boys.

And Toren and Tristen couldnt be prouder of their grand-daughter. Or grand-daughters really. Well actually they were proud of all their grandkids. Ya know what Ryker? Just can you keep telling the story. Im getting a head-ache trying to keep the Orianna/Ariannasilver/gold thing straight.

Well aright. But you did need to know. I mean you might run into Arianna one of these days. So anyway. Aiden was a wonderful father. But he was most certainly closest to his eldest Atticus.

Kalana moved home and got back into the swing of leading the council right off the bat. You have to admit the girl had skillz.

Not that Aiden didnt have any of his own He was now the leader of the police force and hed learned to fly. Im not even going to try and explain that. But its not like I hadnt seen the fella do other stuff. I mean he could set trees on fire, cause earth-quakesI guess hes got a vampire in the family somewhere.

Life went back to normal in Loros or as normal as life ever gets I suppose. Kalanas businesses continued to thrive, the Liris family chose to take up residence in Rainbow Valley, and the generation eight kids continued to grow up.

Before I knew it Kalana and Aidens twin boys had started to school. Atticus was the spitting image of his father, except for the Goldweaver family brow of course while Athan his younger brother took his looks from his mother.

The boys were almost inseparable despite being polar opposites in personality.

Atticus was naturally good with animals. He could get an animal to do just about anything he wanted seemingly without even having to train them.

Poor Athan was simply petrified of dogs.

But he was a natural gardener having inherited his green thumb from his grandma Tristen.

And while Athan seemed to have a special bond with Tristen like his mother Kalana, Atticus had a soft spot for Toren.

Atticus was a natural when it came to his studies. He was always bringing home top marks that could be displayed on the refrigerator.

Athan didnt excel in academics like his brother, but his lack of A+s didnt seem to phase him. He had a happy go lucky personality and honestly very little in life bother him.

Im afraid the poor boy also wasnt so good at reading peoples emotions. He seemed to unfortunately try to engage others in a conversation at the worst possible moment. He had a knack for trying to hug his mother, or tell his father a joke, or pulling a prank on his brother at the worst possible moment.

His brother on the other hand. Well Atticus was never alone. He was always bringing home a cousin, or a classmate. And Atticus never seemed to make a social blunder.

Did I mention Atticus was a crafty little snake? Like both his parents Atticus could be extremely competitive. So much so that he put his father and mother to shame when it came to cheating at games. Hed cheat his grandmother; even his father wouldnt do that.

Hed cheat against his father.

And his mother.

The kid could even cheat against his grandfather! If hed tried that 10 years earlier Atticus never would have gotten away with it.

You just dont like that he was smart enough to beat you.
Aleron? When have I ever in the history of the world been good at chess? Cheating isnt necessary. We know. Gem, youre not helping here.

Well at least you can still catch us all at it when we cheat.

Oh yeah that makes me feel loads better. It still doesnt take away the sting that every generation since generation 6 thinks its fun to try and cheat me at chess. Its like they think Im too stupid to catch them. Oh come on Ry baby. You know we all love you to pieces. I mean you have to admit that you just pull the best faces evah when you catch us cheating. We cant help ourselves!

Fine, Im adorable. Anyway when Atticus took time out of his day not to take every game like a life or death situation he could be a great older brother. He was the neat freak while his brother was a complete slob. Atticus was nice enough to clean up after Athan so he wouldnt get on his mothers last nerve.

Athan found better ways to amuse himself each day like jumping on the furniture.

Or fishing in the family pond.

I always found fishing with Athan in the evenings much more relaxing. We both know you loved Atticus. And the rest of us who have tried to cheat you over the years. Yeah Ryker. You know you love us!

Ahem. So Athan was the more laid back and less competitive of the twins. And of course I still love all the cheats in my life. Thats just the wonderful person that I am.

Well its not like Toren never got onto Atticus about his cheating.

But though they were different, they were also the same. They both loved to swim.

And who doesnt like a pillow-fight after dark in the family cemetery!
*snort* Aleron, youre too much sometimes.

They both loved grilled cheese sandwiches especially the ones Grandma Tristen made.

And camping with Papa Toren was always fun.

And they both loved to dance, though Athan seemed to be the only one born with a right and left foot. Atticus seemed to have only got two left feet from his grandfather Toren.

And they both loved games! Though Athan loved to play games just for the fun of it, while Atticus loved to play games so he could win.

And the brothers quickly found they were part of a very exclusive club. TWC or The Twins Club. Generation 8 had four sets of twins born all around the same time and the group were always together.

The eldest twins were Rhiannon and Elis sons Myrddin and Cai.

Next in line were the Huinke twin girls. Daughters of Xanthe and Dyami Huinke. Shy little Migisi was born first of the pair.

And the whirlwind that was Kimimela or Kimi came next.

And then the second cousins Bors and Neveah came in third. They are of course my grandbabies. My poor Bors was a bit of social screw-up too.

Maybe thats one of the reasons he and Athan stuck together like glue.

My sweet little Neveah had a soft spot for firecracker Kimi.

And so did Atticus, much to his mothers disappointment. But Kimi loved her Auntie Lana. Of course she did, and her Auntie Lana loved her. She just didnt like her twins little girl.

Migisi her twin sister seemed to prefer Athan and Bors company most of all.

Myrddin and Cai spent all their hours with Atticus since they were both very loud and messy. Well, I dont think Atticus liked the messy part, but the loud part was great!

But really everyone liked Atticus even the quiet cousins like my Neveah. It probably helped that Atticus was always willing to be the hero and save his cousins from the mean kids that made them cry.

he was even nice enough to let his cousin Migisi win games sometimes. But not too much. After all he loved to win.

But dont think the boys didnt spend anytime with their mom and dad. Though both parents worked and a lot in Kalanas case, Grandma and Grandpa made sure they took time to enjoy their kids. After all they wouldnt stay young forever. You could find Kalana and her boys together on Sundays the one day she took off.

And you could find them learning the strange ways of distant worlds from their father on Saturdays when the rain wouldnt permit the TWC to meet.

Well Ill end Chapter 34 with a picture of the other Generation 7 couple Sun and Betty Liris. I dont know if well see much of the Liris line since the story was always meant to be about the Goldweaver or Loros family. Hopefully no one is too confused by this most recent turn of events. I dont know how I came up with this stuff when I was a kid. Dont worry Ill be posting picks of the other Liris couples on my Livejournal page in a few days for those who want to see them.