"Are you the one with the magic detecting item?" Lyra asks Patiri. 

"I am." Patiri takes out the amulet. And peers into it. "Yeah, magic."

"We are hoping their twin-based magic can be transimissable."

"Huh. Well, I guess it's good to have that answered. We haven't been able to explain the science behind it yet.

"Twin-based magic?" 

Lyra explains. 

"Oh, wow. That... it would be incredible if it is transmissible. It's convenient that two of us are pregnant with multiples, too," she adds. 

"Well, no time like the present! We'll hold the door for you - watch your step, though, we came in from the basement stairs." 

Door holding!

Isteri gingerly walks through, looking around at Patiri.

Patiri  is looking through the entire process. "It worked, you didn't have magic, now you do." She pauses and squints. "I am pretty sure your children got the magic, but it might be the case that you also, have it? Or not quite it, the potential for it?"

"Might be that any future multiples you might have will be Gemini, too," Brandon suggests as Lia steps inside as well. "Do the rest of you get that second bit if you come inside?" He motions at the door invitingly, "No reason not to test it." 

"Oooh." Patiri has a go. She offers the amulet to Lia to watch through.

Zofin will also try, looking the entire time like a deer caught in the headlight, but she does try.

Mura also does.

And Lia looks at them through the amulet. 

"...Um. It looks like you did get the 'potential' magic, if I'm reading this right, but." She stares at Mura and Zofin's middles through the magic detector, "...Those fertility tattoos Stephania gave us must be very potent." 

"What?"

"It looks like you're pregnant," Lia tells her, voice as gentle as she can make it. "With... twins, at least. The Gemini magic is as strong around you as it is around Isteri. You as well," she adds to Mura. 

She runs away.

Zofin... just tears up.

"What... what the hell." Patiri takes the amulet, quietly apologizing for the rudeness, but then inspecting Zofin, then Isteri.

"Pure blue sky preserve us." Isteri mutters.

Lia watches Mura run off, worried, and considers following, but Zofin is still here. She steps a little closer, wanting to offer comfort - she knows what it's like to suddenly find yourself unexpectedly pregnant by someone you have very mixed feelings about. 

"He told me he was going to tell you he'd chosen to get the fertility tattoo," she offers Zofin a little helplessly, "-do you want a hug?" 

Lyra and Brandon step back a bit from the scene, trading uncomfortable glances. Brandon motions after Mura questioningly.

Lyra shrugs and goes after her. At least she probably won't make things worse?

Stepping back sounds like, the diplomatic thing to do.

"He did. I... we- I don't know... I know I am still springing and... and..."

She gets a lot of understanding nodding in response to that, "I get it," Lia assures her. She is still offering a hug, but she's not going to push it. 

Zofin accepts it, once she notices.