He's on his way back to the quarters he and Mummy and Daddy share, and he's just pushed open the door that usually leads to the right building in the Forks compound.
It doesn't.
Kerron has only opened this door twice before in this direction, but he sure remembers where it used to go. Probably Mummy or Her Majesty did a magic here. He wants to see what kind. He goes in and lets the door swing shut behind him.
"She asked and I said," Kerron blinks. "I'm okay. We just talked. She's a human, she can't hurt me, why are you scared?"
"Your daddy and the bat lady don't like each other much," the Joker puts in, glancing up from his sewing. "What'd you talk about?"
"That! But she wouldn't say why," says Kerron. "And I told her you didn't have any colorshapes about any cities so she didn't have to worry about that, and she said she didn't understand you but she met you once, and she met the Empress one time, and she wanted to know how you could be my mummy and I told her magic, and she explained what a complex is and why Jasper thought I was going to have one but I don't 'cause I know you love me."
"And she said that mass murderers don't turn into doting parents but I said obviously they do, like, all the time," says Kerron, nodding to himself. "And I explained about how half-vampires grow, and she said the first drink is free so I got a synthetic thing that looked like a pina colada but it tasted totally different and it was really good, and I told her about the Ultra Olympics, and there's no magic in her world at all and that's sad, and -" Then he repeats the part of the conversation about why Nathan might not like the batlady. Verbatim, including the part where he quoted Addy about how Mummy turning would simplify things.
"You've never wanted to turn," Nathan says. "Kerron, kiddo, even if something like that happens, you'll be fine, okay? We both love you."
"Henry and Lily and Brandon don't have me for a mother," he says. "That's life. Wanna hug, munchkin?"
"I love you, little munchkin," he murmurs. "And I love your daddy too. Okay?"
"You know, it's not just humans who don't have mate bonds, it's half-vampires too," Nathan says. "When you get older -"
"You should try really hard not to fall out of love with Daddy even though you could," Kerron tells his mummy sternly.