"I mean, it's okay, grays can be really smart and you're half-blue..." she gets one of those looks like she doesn't know if she should ask what she wants to ask.

"Purples can be really smart, too, you know." He notices the look - his head tilts, "Gotta question?" 

"Oh, right. Well, you have to go upstairs anyway, you can just ask then, can't you?" 

"Oh, right. I should go." She hugs Sefoni and goes towards the door.

Ita doesn't notice Tepam approaching. "Huh, mom says that I shouldn't believe in rumors, but people say that you're the blue triplets' cousins and you are smart..."

"I thought the rumor was that they are my dad's secret kids." Tepam says startling Ita.

"I heard that Ms Liarae is Ms Isteri's secret sister," Sefoni adds quietly from the nearby flowerbed. 

Blink. "Oh, those rumours," he giggles, "I don't think any of those are true! Mum doesn't talk about our dad but she would've said if it was Uncle Istevi, or if Seni and Karo and Teo were our actual cousins." 

Ita blushes. "I know they are a silly, I know. But you get a long with Seni..."

"I like Seni! I like lots of people. I think I get along with most of them? I'd have to be related to a lotta people if that was all it took." 

"Yes, but Seni can be kind of scary sometimes, Mika. He's so serious..." 

"Scary?" He is very confused by this, "Seni is really nice, though. He really wants to help everyone, and that's hard, so he's gotta be serious about it." 

"Yeah, but Karo and Teo, like... act like kids sometimes."

"They don't have to be the same just 'cause they're identical, you know. Seni just gets excited about different things. And... he doesn't really show it as much when he does, I guess." 

"He doesn't show it at all. I don't think I've ever seen him smile," Sefoni comments. "If they weren't identical you almost couldn't believe him and Karo were brothers." 

"I guess you're just not looking close enough, then," Mika tells her, a little annoyed. 

"He is weird. Which is good, weird is interesting. At least he is not boring... or that sort of blue that is... all smiles. Not like Karo, the ones you know are fake?"

"Yeah, like the ones that talk on TV. I don't like those ones much. It's like they think everyone else is stupid." 

"Oh, so that's why that pair of twins, the ones with really deep blue hair are like that?"

"Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's why." He shrugs.

"Anyway, Mika help me open the door? I don't like tiring my arms before enchanting."

"Oh, sure!" He joins her in walking over to the door. "Sorry, I know we're not supposed to close it during the day cause it's so hard to move," he tells Tepam, before stepping up to push it open. 

...That's not the hallway outside the bunker garden.

"Wait, what?" Tepam says looking around and even touching the tables to make sure they are solid. Then she sees something on the same wall the door is supposed to be in and gasps. "Guys, guys, look!"

Ita steps and looks and also gasps. "Are... those? Exploding stars?"

"...I think they are," Sefoni agrees as she comes up beside her.