"See some cool magic, if you have some?"

"Heh, depends on what you think it's cool? Like, I think my clockworks are cool, but they are not very magical. But maybe you mean stuff like the new witch in town."

"Which," says Stephen-in-a-black-shirt, "you shouldn't bother."

"Clockwork sounds cool. Machines and stuff." He winks at Adam.

"Can I go home? And show Nico our things?"

Stephen's shirt turn white again as he looks at Adam's other dad. Then he says. "Sure, son. We will be along shortly."

"Be a good host."

"And don't let him go through my stuff," says one of Adam's siblings.

"I have no intention of stuff-going-through." The shirt must indicate the swap between personalities. Strange, but at least there's an indicator?

Color-coded for their convenience!

"Thanks, dads," Adam says, "follow me."

He starts walking home.

"What's your dads like? And your siblings? Do I have to watch my back or anything?"

"Watch your back? No? They are cool. Mary Jane is kinda of weird, but it's easy to be out of her way. The entire thing with his other's personality family is embarrassing, but not, like, dangerous."

"If you say so. I do kinda want to meet that witch but it can totally wait. And clockwork stuff is neat, too. Don't have things like that where I'm from."

"Huh, are you actually capable of scrying? I don't think she moves around a lot, but I heard she drives her home around the marshes and you wouldn't be able to find the tracks of her tower."

They apparently have arrived at a pair of twin houses painted in purple tones. Adam gets inside.

"A moving house! That sounds fun to track down! I can totally scry for that... Maybe when your family's not expecting me to be here, though."

"Witches don't have moving houses where you are from?" Adam turns the lightswitch on and starts making the way downstairs. It's a fairly normal house, for this world, Nico might not recognize lightbulbs, the radio and other briefly seen inventions. "And why not scry from here?"

"We don't have witches. I'm getting 'weird magic user' out of that word and that's it. And 'cause if I scry now and go hunting later she might've moved. What's that?" He says of the radio.

Adam gives him a confused face. "It's a radio. You don't have those either?"

"Apparently not."

"Okay... Radios are a machine that receive radio signals from the air and turn it into sound. And the radio signals come from a place that transmit them and they are stuff like music, news or serials."

"Neat. Communication tool. What kind of signals? Is it magic or just clockworky stuff?"

"Uh, Clockworky? Except it's like... electricity. I think radio signals are light that humans can't see."

"Like the burny parts of sun, or the warm parts of fire? That's kinda like clockworky stuff, that's what I meant. Cool. I wanna read a book about it later."

"You mean like solar radiation? ...I guess it's in the name. I am sure dad can show you a book."

"I meant that fire makes a different kind and solar radiation is a third kind of light-you-can't-see. Lookin' forward to it. Nice place, by the way."