Felix picks up. "Hello! Sadde?"

It transpires that the twins would love to meet for Card trading.

Then they should do that!

Cool. It can be at the twins' place then. They rented one that was good for privacy.

So they go there.

Their current home is a penthouse. It appears to have been selected because it was the tallest building in the vicinity, but the neighborhood is far from bad.

Felix unlocks the exterior door and waves them to get inside. "Nice to see you two again! Come in. How was traffic?"

"Don't know, we walked. Fancy place you got here."

"It was a pleasant walk, for what was worth and yes. This place is nice."

It is one of those old buildings that was well preserver through out the years even thought it is likely older than their parents.

"Thanks! I think it was picked mostly for the location and privacy. But it is nice."

Felix conducts them to the elevators, waving at someone walking down the lobby with their dog.

"'Was picked'? By whom?"

"Our grandfather. He sent us here."

"To go after the Cards? Huh."

"And possibly restore your family's honor. Or something. It just sounds weird that he would send a couple of teenagers to do the job."

"There aren't really that many people he could've sent. But he trusts us to be responsible."

The elevator reaches their floor, they get out and Felix unlocks the door.

"Why aren't there?"

"Well, there are few people in the overlap between capable, responsible, interested and trustworthy. I mean, being part of the family helped a great deal, but so did the magical powers. Please come in."

The apartment is very spacious, the furniture is nice but there is very little decoration besides a lot of cheap plastic vases with not so cheap flowers. From the entrance they can see a single family portrait which is the single item of wall decoration.

The portrait includes the younger twins, a younger boy with normal hair who is likely their brother and three adults (parents plus an uncle) and grandparents.

"Hello." Says Fenris standing up from the sofa where he was reading a book.

"Hiya." Back to Felix: "Doesn't everyone in your family have those? Magical powers, that is."

"No, not everyone. Just a couple of people at same time. There was a period where it skipped several generations and the true meaning of the weird hair," he waves at his own red mane, "was almost lost."

"What? Really?"

"Well, record keeping wasn't that great at the time and the relevant ancestor was known to exaggerate things."

"Why did it skip generations?"

"I am not sure there aren't other things that skip generations like our elemental powers," Fenris says with a helpless shrug. "Sorcery and critterhood never do as far anyone knows."

"—right sorcery's what I meant by magical powers, what elemental powers?"

"They mentioned that, but didn't go into detail."

"True. Our family was 'cursed'," Fenris says while using very sarcastic air quotes, "so every so often someone is born with control over an element and weird-colored anime hair," he glances at Temple, "that grows to the exact same length if we try to get it cut."