Something to Remember [Private/Lillian] [Vanyel/Calypso]

Vanyel ruffled his wife's hair, leaning in to kiss her on the cheek as she voiced her thoughts for a boy. He chuckled softly at the notion, though was fairly impartial to the gender. The only thing he wanted to be sure of was that their kid didn't end up like him. Regardless of whether they were a boy or a girl, he'd do his best to love them as best he could.

He had to agree on the fact that there were a lot of flowers that...would definitely not make for good names. Lotus, however, was a good start -- one that he really liked, not just for the sake of it being a name, but also the significance of it. He remembered that the protective deity, Nezha, "Marshal of the Central Altar" had originally been reborn through a lotus flower.

It was a good name, with even better mythological backing behind it. He slipped his sunglasses onto his face, tilting them up onto his forehead and poking into the snow-white hair of his Shifter Form, walking over to Calypso and taking her hand as he opened the door with the other, walking with her out the door as they headed to the elevator.

"There's a lot of good names based in Chinese and China. After this, we should definitely sit down and talk more about it. But, for now, the Changcheng awaits!"

As they got in and started heading down, Vanyel leaned against the wall of the elevator, continuing and explaining a few things.

"So, little bit of background info about it. 'Changcheng' basically means 'The Long Wall' in Chinese. It's over six thousand kilometers long! Or, as Americans call it in their bullshit Freedom Units, around three-thousand, two-hundred, and seventy-eight miles."

Rolling his eyes at the stupid differences between them and the rest of the world, Vanyel folded his arms over his chest before continuing.

"We're in Beijing right now, so we can hit up a chunk of the wall, as well as make it to the Imperial Palace, also known as the Forbidden City, mainly because it used to house a bunch of fuckin' emperors in the old dynasties, and they didn't let anyone else stay there other than Imperial families and...courtesans, whatever the hell that means."

It wasn't long before the elevator stopped and opened, with Vanyel still nerding out as they walked out, with him sliding his sunglasses over his eyes. While using a map to help as a guide, the two were able to get onto a bus, with him still spouting a bunch of information about Chinese history as they rode to the Great Wall, with one bit in particular:

"Fun fact, there's a big-ass town, called the Hengdian World Studios, that's entirely used as a film site for Chinese dramas, and there's a section dedicated to a replica of the Imperial Palace to shoot C-dramas for the eras that it was from. It's almost five-hundred-thousand square meters in scale, it's fuckin' crazy!"

All the while, the demon never stopped grinning, occasionally looking out the window at his homeland -- one that he tragically never was able to see until now. But, being here for the first time while knowing so much about his own culture and homeland was a unique experience. At least Caly seemed to enjoy him nerding out about all this stuff, and it was a good way to kill time while they traveled.

As the bus arrived at the site, the couple stepped out, and Vanyel stared in awe at the massively long wall that seemed to go on forever, before turning to Calypso.

"I know we haven't been here for very long, but, what do you think?"