They are!

"… Okay so should I go do that then?"

"Probably."

"Be back in a bit," and then off upstairs he goes.

"So," she looks at Matt to ask, "I know how I ended up here, but how did you?"

"They thought Theo was in magical love with Sadde, brought me in to test if he just got that with everyone he met after some amount of talking."

She looks at Sadde, then back at Matt, and blinks. "So they just—decided you were a good candidate for magical falling-in-love-with?"

"Apparently," he states. "I'm pretty sure it was more 'who is the worst candidate to fall in love with, who's less bad, okay so we've ruled out most people so what's the best of what's left', instead of me actually being good?"

"You sell yourself short."

"Thanks," he smiles.

"I guess it wouldn't be bad at all to fall in love with you," she muses. "You're really nice to people and you get happy when they get happy and you're sweet and cute and I'll stop talking now I think."

"– Thanks," he says again. "I try to be."

Smile.

Smile.

"Does anybody want anything to eat?" asks Theo, shouting from upstairs.

"I wouldn't complain," he says in normal volume.

"Me neither!"

Theo appears back shortly! "I have a bunch of stuff just around but since it's like four I'm guessing you want chips or cookies orrr something like that, I honestly don't know, I had such a bad memory as a human."

"And you don't remember what you have in your kitchen?"

"What were the test results?" asks Sadde of the Correct Priorities.

"I have a bunch of things in my kitchen and you would probably be better served browsing than me reciting them all," he responds. "And I have not actually done the test yet, water takes some time to run and then I decided to offer you some food while it does so – but might as well go back up, like, doesn't take that long, be back in a mo."

Off he goes.

Matt pauses. Then he looks up the stairs where Theo just went, and back at the others. "… I feel like he's sort of forgotten how to pace things properly?"

"How so?"

"Running words together, rushing about, disappearing without waiting for a response, that sort of thing…" Pause. "I mean, it's totally understandable but it's perhaps useful for him to hear it."

"...to be honest that's kinda hot."