[kielce] i can go the distance { maia }

It had been many months since Mateusz had gotten a day off, but on a fairly cool November morning he found himself with a day to himself. If only it was truly a day to himself. Ever since he'd learned that he had a daughter, he found the little girl spending more and more time with him. He enjoyed it for the most part, so long as her mother wasn't around, but Mat wasn't father material. He wasn't supposed to settle down and have little children running around him, demanding his attention. Yet, he somehow found himself in such a predicament, and was almost enjoying it.

That day, Mat had planned to relax around his home and do absolutely nothing. If anything, perhaps he was going to get more sleep in. However, that quickly ended when Eirian, the mother of his child, dropped off the four-year-old ball of energy at his house and took off. It wasn't as if Mat had anything special planned that day, however he wasn't in the mood to get into an argument with Eirian, so he happily waved her off and shut the door in her face. Immediately, Seren began to tell him about her day and about a game she'd played with her cousins back home. Mat tried to focus on the story, however he just couldn't get into the social lives of four-year-olds, so he mhm'd and aha'd the whole time until he felt a tug on his hair and a whiny "Daddy."

"Yes?" He asked, as he stifled a yawn and closed his eyes. "I want to play, Daddy," Seren replied. When Mat gave no answer, Seren tugged on his hair once more and commanded, "Now, Daddy." Mat brushed her hand away and slowly stood up, stretching once he got to his feet. "I'll take you to the park. Go get your jacket, okay?" Mat reached for his own jacket, and once he and Seren were squared away, they left his house and proceeded to walk to a small park in Kielce near the wizarding part of the town.

Mat tried the best he could to play with the younger girl, but he honestly didn't know how little kids functioned. To him, all they wanted to do was run around and get dirty, and neither was something Mat was invested in. Instead, after several minutes of "playing" with his daughter, he sat down on a bench and watched as she started to play with some of the other children. If he could manage to take a nap without anyone noticing, this would surely prove to be a better day.

Maia laughed along with the little kids that were sitting beside her at the fountain. They were focused on the fish that followed her finger. She was good for a lot of things, but kids only liked her for what she could do for them. They were pleasantly self serving and she did enjoy them. When she trapped a man to be her lawfully wedded second husband. made love to him every night and produced a child, she hoped that they'd be just as cute as the ones lurking around her. Especially the little one called Seren. Seren was cheerful and nice, and Maia just wanted to snug her. That was inappropriate, to snuggle an unattended child, right?

It was not the first time that she'd been in Poland. If it wasn't for the fact that she didn't speak a lick of Polish, she'd call it her second home. She wasn't a Quidditch groupie, but she did like to follow her team around for games when she could. This visit wasn't the case. She'd worked on a house that'd suffered a cave in, and its underground vault was destroyed. There was nothing like digging in rocks underground for gold. She loved goooold. All of the gold. After only getting half of the gold from the vault, the proprieter decided that it was time for them to take a break. She'd gone to see a few sites, gotten a bite to eat, and now she was just sitting in the park.


"EH!" She squeaked as a tiny hand grabbed her wrist and tiny Seren tugged her up. It wasn't like she was huge person, but maybe this child was extremely strong. Injected with some super human type of powers. Whatever it was, she stared into the girl's earnest eyes and tried to understand what she was saying. She spoke so fast, and in a language that Maia didn't really know so the siren just started nodding. Seren, seemingly pleased that Maia was agreeing with whatever she was saying began to drag her to a bench where a man was seated.

Was he napping? Whatever he was doing, it was swiftly interrupted as Maia was dragged (read: thrown) onto this man's lap. All she heard was furious yelling, and then "Daddy". Seren was off like a hurricane, and Maia was drapped against a man who was staring at her startled. 'My apologies, sir." Her arms were still wrapped around his neck, and she blinked at him wide eyed. "...Is that girl yours?" Her accented english was hesitant. "Do you speak English? I do not know polish..."


...why hadn't she gotten up yet?