"Oh, I have been out-queered."

"Anyway, me next? Grayward, Temple Grayward. My biological mom never married our father, and yes you could have asked about it, because it's pretty obvious. I love magic, but I also like adventure, and reading, and playing games and stuff. But magic is the best."

"Temple likes the first five minutes of anything. I am Morgan. Franklyn and Adam's full brother. Sovie is my mom, but we all call her mom anyway."

"It is good to know," Tintin says, nodding. "It seemed rude to ask. I think that I will like magic too. Morgan, you did not say anything about yourself? What do you like?"

"It shouldn't be a hard question, dude."

"I am not a tree hugger, but I like nature and plants," Morgan glares at Aaron. "I guess I like adventure too."

"...I see."

Tintin is going to have to bake many cookies.

"Served?" Stephen says to Tintin and waving at the food on the table. "You boys too." He tells the rest of the kids.

Tintin will help himself to some sweets. He is mildly fascinated by jello.

The jello has a sweet and smooth taste, hard to recognize the actual flavor. It's orange, but nothing like orange.

Aaron takes the seat next to him. "Hey, so the detective told dad you had a gift already." He takes a cookie.

Temple - who was eating an cookie-jello sandwich - speaks with his mouth full. "What does," swallow, "it does?"

"Ah! Yes, it is a breath gift - I can make myself stronger for a little while, much stronger than I should be. You may have noticed that I am small."

"Cool."

"Huh, do you want to arm-wrestling?

"Not while are you eating. And Tintin needs to be warded first."

"When will I be warded?"

"Well, you can get your first intro on ritual safety while we set up the warding rituals. After you finish your snacks. Since it's a special occasion the family can go for a flight."

Tintin sets about his snacks with vigor.

Even Adam like this idea and eats with more enthusiasm.

Stephen tries to promote small talk. Any of the boys' plans for the near future? Ideally, things that they can include Tintin in?

"That depends if Tintin is okay with being asked constantly about being actually your kid."

"...I - think that if I were his child we all would have known about it earlier?"

"The problem here is that you think. It's far more than what we can say about those people."