"Aw, you have a thing for blondes," Ari coos.

Henry indignantly blushes.

"I am serious." And blushing.

"I know. I love you. I can probably deal with your world just fine, no protection required."

"Yeah. I think you're like... assuming we way too alike than we actually are? Ari didn't grew up offloading his moral judgement to someone like you. I assume. Ari, if you have your own Henry I will be mad if he is hot and you didn't mention him until now."

"My adoptive uncle is not particularly hot unless you're into eighty-year-olds. Might've been when he was younger, I wouldn't know."

Gabe rubs his chin thoughtfully. "Not my kink. But I think with enough youth and health transfer it's good enough to restore hotness if we are willing to put the effort for that foursome."

Henry hangs his head and gives a tired laugh that sounds forcedly pulled out by tweezers.

"Gross. Bang Uncle Deckard on your own time, don't drag me into it."

Pause. "He was a redhead, though. If you're into that."

Gabe makes a so-so gesture. "Probably not worth the effort just for a threesome."

"Yeah, our only motivation is that Ari presumably loves the guy."

"Hey, I'm the one with unlimited youth. I'll be saving his life myself, thanks. ...Once I know how to do that."

Squeeze. "Don't worry. It takes time but I will teach you."

"...In the absence of anything better to do, wanna teach me now?"

"Sure. It takes a while to get to actually do youth, we will have to start with breath and work our way up."

But they can do that to fill in the time.

Sharing breath, and the resulting hypoxia, is kind of exciting! Ari's towel is tenting up a bit.

Color Henry completely unsurprised. They can at least cooperate to make the... tension less obvious?

Ari's thankful for that. He's not embarrassed, per se, but he's conscious that this is a public place and one where several people very recently got murdered. And that lady could be back any minute.

Neither cousin actually expected embarrassment. Someone eventually does realize that the naked guy could receive some clothes. Gabe will accept them so Ari doesn't need to stand-up and reveal too much.

Felix pops in before there is time to get dressed. "They are going to let us go. Likely, someone is going to come to the cousins' place check-in, but we are free for now."

"Damn, they are going to want to talk to our aunt."

"...Problem?"

"You might have not notice her around. Uh, basically she has been skipping her job and the five of us pick up her slack."

"She is living her childhood dream of being a mysterious fortuneteller by walking around the country side. Reading people's futures using techniques that don't work."

"We basically have been doing her job in exchange of getting books and resources from the High Library. Most people have one apprentice."

"Fun. So, what happens if they do want to talk to her and she's not around?"