Dolan can't help but laugh at how unobtrusive Luna keeps fighting to look, her eyes watching Shand and Lance fight pettily to give her something to do. Dolan doesn't make her wait much longer, scooping her up under her arms, giving her a good little tickle as he swoops her up and deposits her on his lap.
When he looks down at her, she looks like a tiny, frail little baby bird in his lap, barely anything measured against the breadth of his shoulders, and she grips the edge of the table like she's trying to stay balanced, like his lap is still even too big for her.
So Dolan keeps one arm wrapped around her and pulls her over to over leg, moving her plate with her, to keep everything spaced out and easy to access.
Before another word can be said, Shand is poking at his toast, crumbling pieces of it off, flicking some of the larger crumbs at Lance, sticking them in his hair. Lance, of course, retaliates.
Luna is trying to tell them to stop, trying to tell them how to behave at a table and how to be good, but they're not having any of it. It seems like kind of a lost cause to Dolan at this point anyway.
He's having to practically hold Luna down in his lap because the fervor with which she's pointing her finger and trying to get the boys to calm down and fly right nearly has her standing up right on his leg.
He leans his elbow against the table and thinks once again about how tired he is. Trita doesn't look much more well rested than he is, either.
"Okay, Mommy."
His voice is quiet compared the the loud roar of the kids, frazzled and definitely sleep deprived, a little desperate as he speaks out the side of his mouth, clearly just to Trita and no one else.
"What's the game plan, here?"
When he looks down at her, she looks like a tiny, frail little baby bird in his lap, barely anything measured against the breadth of his shoulders, and she grips the edge of the table like she's trying to stay balanced, like his lap is still even too big for her.
So Dolan keeps one arm wrapped around her and pulls her over to over leg, moving her plate with her, to keep everything spaced out and easy to access.
Before another word can be said, Shand is poking at his toast, crumbling pieces of it off, flicking some of the larger crumbs at Lance, sticking them in his hair. Lance, of course, retaliates.
Luna is trying to tell them to stop, trying to tell them how to behave at a table and how to be good, but they're not having any of it. It seems like kind of a lost cause to Dolan at this point anyway.
He's having to practically hold Luna down in his lap because the fervor with which she's pointing her finger and trying to get the boys to calm down and fly right nearly has her standing up right on his leg.
He leans his elbow against the table and thinks once again about how tired he is. Trita doesn't look much more well rested than he is, either.
"Okay, Mommy."
His voice is quiet compared the the loud roar of the kids, frazzled and definitely sleep deprived, a little desperate as he speaks out the side of his mouth, clearly just to Trita and no one else.
"What's the game plan, here?"