"We would not be happy about it if awful movies about us were a primary source of information about us for you."

"Awful movies aren't a good source of information about anything," says Kalavar.

"Yes. But we don't know what else there was to go by. We have never been legendary and extremely missing before."

"For a while we didn't even know the Shade-Dreamer and our secret mom were the same person," says Kalavar.

"When did you find out?"

"After we saw the aquarium," she recalls. "Ranata was flying us to Charlie's house and we saw a billboard with Isabella's name on it."

"And you noticed the name matched and asked?" guesses Path. "Or Ranata just chose then to tell you?"

"Yeah, we noticed."

"What do you know about us? What did Ranata and Kas say?"

"I don't know," says Kalavar. "Things. They talked about you sometimes. They missed you a lot."

Path's wings shush against his sides. "We knew time might be different. We didn't know it was going to be this different."

Petaal nuzzles him.

Nuzzles. "We missed you too, though," he murmurs.

"Aww," says Kalavar.