"Yeah, some of you guys if you're born in worlds with Gothams meet this lady who dresses up like a bat and fights crime and there's a weird bit of extended violence? I think you were lined up to do it, I know Harley was, Mum actually did, so did a couple others."

"Yeah? And what's she like?"

"Did not care for Mum. Far as I know she's otherwise good on the minding-when-bad-things-happen-to-people. Hence the fighting crime."

He laughs.

"Dad was spooked when he found out I met her. She accidentally killed him one time."

"Accidentally?"

"He stood up too fast - like, way too fast, I am incapable of demonstrating, that fast - because he was pissed off at her for vampire-mate-jealousy-stuff-reasons, and she got scared, and she had a hexagon in her pocket and wasn't very careful wishing him something safe but not dead."

He snorts.

"So then Mum resurrected him but we didn't know how to do it properly then, so then there was one of him in the afterlife and one alive, and the afterlife had a century go by in the meantime, and then they found out this had happened and the Dads merged so there's only one Dad again now. This was all way over my head at the time, but I've picked it up since."

"I sure prefer it that way."

"I wouldn't know."

"Yeah, you guys get the very short end of the stick in the parent department."

He giggles.

"But hey, then you get to grow up and have fascinating children."

"Uh-huh."

"There's only the one of Dad, though, so far, so you'll have to settle for some other variety of fascinating child. Depending on how it works, anyway, maybe there's more than one way to make Kerrons."

"I don't really want one."

"Sure. Not all of you become mums, I'm not reading your palm infallibly over here. Whatever you wanna do."

What he wants to do is... pet his poof some more, apparently. Fluff fluff.

Kerron relaxes, maybe not enough to notice. "It's pretty impressive they manage to be that cute without, like, eyes."

"They're fluffy," he says, snuggling it. "Little and round and fluffy."

"And they make the best noises."

"Harley has one too but his is sort of purple."