"Were you raised by them?"

"Yeah."

Sneaking suspicion. "Tae-hwan, what's the name of your mother?"

"I'd rather not talk about my parents while we're naked in bed?"

Hoooooo boy.

"Tae-hwan, who was your best friend when you were a kid?"

"Dunno."

"Who was the first person you kissed?"

"Can we not talk about that? That's annoying."

"...sorry."

You know, maybe Peter should've asked this a lot sooner, because...

(Eric pets Tae-hwan.)

(He leans into it.)

...Peter thinks he wasn't the only person who sprouted fully formed out of thin air two weeks ago.

The four of them don't re-enroll for next term, and as such frat regulations require that they move out by the end of the day, which is much too quickly in Peter's opinion but then again, people's lifespans, etc. And, really, it's not like he has a ton of belongings, anyway, especially with how he can just... have his clothes appear wherever it is that he considers to be his wardrobe.

(He really should get around to munchkinning that shit or at least exploring it a bit better at some point.)

(Later. Once he's immortal.)

So what they do is go around telling the other people at the frat that they're leaving (with Lucas graciously allowing Peter and Tae-hwan to stay with him for a couple of days), and Peter will take this time to try to figure out the prevalence of people who were created out of thin air two weeks ago versus not.

It seems that about... one in five people were created out of thin air? But, uh, not two weeks ago, the spread of when it happened is a bit wider than that. The others seem to have a proper history and all, although some deeper prodding suggests that maybe that history doesn't go back that far, necessarily.

W...eird? So this isn't something that just kinda happened when Peter showed up, it just... happens continuously? People just sometimes come to existence? He remembers asking Tae-hwan about this but given that Tae-hwan didn't even realise he had started existing out of nowhere, too...