"We will," Lesi agrees, running a finger over all the Enduraces and Resliences on the list with a frown. She's not sure how to fix a lot of things, but she's sure they'll be able to figure it out, between all of them. 

Tepam appreciates hugs, though she might need some more space to breathe, specially when Karo takes the opportunity to pile on the hug as well.

Oops! Mika will pull away a bit before she suffocates, then.

She is more in danger of giggling too much.

And then the nurse says that they may come in, the immediate family first, then a handful of people at a time.

!!!

He gives Tepam one last quick hug and then runs off through the door. New siblings!!!!

(Lesi follows in just slightly less of a rush.)

In the room there are, in fact, two new babies, both being held by their mother in her hospital bed. She smiles at her older twins, her face lighting up despite the obvious exhaustion. 

"Mika, Alesin. Come meet your siblings. These are Raeni and Aekon." Raeni is the elder, though she is noticeably smaller than her brother, and has an IV attached to her arm. Both she and Aekon are hairless, so whether their hair will need dyeing once they're old enough that it's safe to do so is yet to be seen.

The twins marvel over their siblings for a bit, asking concerned questions about the IV (Raeni is sick, but the doctors say she'll be fine, Lia tells them, hiding her own worry) before Lia sends them out, having decided that they will get to pick who draws the blessings this time. 

Adon and Ibrae have arrived while the twins were in the room. Their kids are elsewhere in the hospital with Asara, all five of them having come down with some sort of mild sickness. The two of them look a little run-down, but offer tired smiles when Alesin and Mika pass them, and then go inside the room themselves for a short visit.

He waves at his aunt and uncle and then turns to try to make his decision. This is a hard choice! Mika doesn't want anyone to feel left out, but there's only six blessings to draw.

Alesin finds this difficult, too, but after a moment of thought she picks Migah, Tani, and Teo. Three of the people who got Resilience, and Teo because he got Loyalty, too. 

Oh, that's a good idea. Mika picks Tepam, Seni, and... Ovali, because he got Change.

And of course the other kids can come in too, right nurse? If they're very good?

The nurse will let them in if they are very quiet and don't crowd the bed. Specially around baby Raeni.  

Which, they decide to start with.

Tepam draws Vision.

Migah draws Endurance.

And Ovali draws Time.

Then they move to Aekon.

Tani draws Power. 

Seni draws Certainty. 

Teo draws Charm.

Lia shares a speaking look with Ibrae and Adon, who are still in the room, while the latter notes down Raeni's blessings. That set suggests an interesting Gemini power. Assuming she makes it, which... there's every reason to believe she will. The doctors in the Gemini village's small hospital are top-notch, and many trained particularly in the area of neonatal care. Raeni will be fine. They'll draw blessings every day to make sure of it.

As for Aekon, "Another Power," she kisses his little head, "And charming as well." Though Certainty could be good or bad, depending on what Aekon is so certain of. "Endurance, for Raeni," she murmurs then, her worry showing more obviously now.

"Migah has Endurance and she's okay," Lesi points out.

"I am! I bet she... she is... going to be strong when she grows up."

"Shhh," her grandmother says. "Hospital, remember?"

Mika nods a bunch, "Yeah, she's sick now but she's gonna be fine. That's what Enduring means, right?"

Lia smiles, "Yes, it is. Strength through adversity," she smiles at Migah as well, "I'm sure she'll grow up to be very strong, just like you will. And in the meantime, she'll have her twin and her older brother and sister and all these friends to help her on her way." And eventually she'll have her Basics, which should fix anything they can't fix without magic. Everything is going to be fine.

And everything is fine. Raeni's health continues to be worrying, but the blessings always come back hopeful, and she keeps pulling through. Soon, the first generation of children on the island start turning 2, and with this milestone it comes time to teach Tepam, Mika, and Alesin how to enchant. 

Tepam is the most EXCITED CHILD EVER!!!

Mika and Alesin are not as excited as Tepam but only because being as excited as Tepam is about learning magic without being Tepam is probably not possible. They are Pretty Excited, though, despite Mika's lingering memories of how it felt the last time he poked at a magic thing. 

They are all very excited and very cute.

Lia has left Raeni and Aekon with Adon for the day, so she can devote all her attention to helping the trio safely learn one of the simple enchantments she'd built over the past three seasons. 

She brings them into her office and points them towards one of her tables, where nine plain rings are set three to a pile for them to pick from. 

"These all have warming, cooling, or glowing enchantments," she tells the three children. "Today you can pick one. You'll be disenchanting the one you pick to learn the enchantment, and then I'll be helping you enchant your first rings. These three enchantments are simple, so they shouldn't be dangerous for you to learn through disenchanting. After you've learned them, however, you'll have to learn the rest the hard way."

Tepam pays a lot of attention to all of this. "I want to pick glowing!"

"You can pick glowing," Lia says with a laugh. 

They're all pretty simple-looking, just metal wire twisted together to make plain rings. Lia hands Tepam one of the rings from the left pile and then waves Mika and Alesin forward to pick theirs.

"Don't get too attached," she tells them, "disenchanting wrecks the item, that's why they're all plain."

Lesi picks cooling, because it is summer and that means it is really hot, all the time. 

Hm, Mika wanted to learn the glowing one, but... he'll take warming, then.