Shrug. "I find it kinda ridiculous how that never activated accidentally."

"We don't usually call upon gods and elements to do things?"

"Any idea when people get the aptitude to do sorcery, Cerberus? Is it from birth or do they get it some certain age…?"

"I don't know much, but Clow was born magical and there are sorcerer clans."

"When you say born magical, is that just a fact you've learnt or did it actually manifest, or…?"

"I wasn't there when he was born."

"Yeah, I mean – how do you know he's been magical since birth? Were you just told that, or do you know of him actually doing magic when young…?"

"I think everyone in a clan does magic when young..."

"I'd expect at least some of us to have jokingly called upon an element, or acted it out in a play or something… I guess maybe not?"

Shrug.

"– Anyway, after Jump was… Easter holiday and then the Shadow? Or Easter holiday might've been before, I don't recall."

"Shadow on my birthday, woo."

"Easter holiday first, then, with Jump. I think we've covered that one, unless there was anything else you'd have done differently?"

"Nothing I can think of."

"How about the following week? Would you have noticed I was flirting before Theo did?"

"Well he didn't realize it until right up at the tease, and then he assumed it was insincere."

Theo admits nothing.

"I'm pretty sure I would have noticed before him and I wouldn't have been so nettled."

"Would you have done anything about it?"

He shrugs. "Probably not?"

Sigh. "You two."

"I don't see why you're grouping me with him here."

Theo gives Tyler a look.

"If you could see why I'm grouping you with him here I probably wouldn't be."

"He didn't know about it. I wouldn't have acted on it. I'm not sure what the common ground is except, like, 'appears to be oblivious'."