"I don't know any other sorcerers."

"And he does have a point, I trust myself and you, and I kinda have to trust him, aaaannd I suppose I trust Theo, too," he says, grinning at his boyfriend, "but other than that I'm not sure I want to decentralize the power to take over the world more than it already is."

Theo grins in response. "Yeah. If we found other people that we knew were trustworthy, and that we could keep in contact with, it might be okay, but otherwise not really."

She sighs. "I suppose you're right."

"I usually am."

"Don't get cocky."

He giggles.

Theo watches the interaction and laughs.

"Do you have any questions about the cards, then, or has Sadde told you everything about them?"

"I think he's told me everything. I couldn't see Change when he manifested it so it probably won't help with the other cards."

"Ah, okay," Theo says, and he starts putting the cards away.

And Laura grabs the book she'd been reading and resumes said reading.

"Um."

She doesn't look up from her book. "I did warn you it'd be boring."

Theo sits down and gets out his phone.

...

Sadde grabs Theo's right ear and starts pulling him towards the sofa so they can sit together (not too strongly, just to give a hint).

Theo laughs and gets up, going over to the sofa and sitting down.

And Sadde sits next to him and puts an arm around him and rests his head on his shoulder and closes his eyes and realises that sleeping while his mother was almost dying was not a terribly successful endeavour and he's actually pretty tired and he might nap a little bit on Theo if that's okay.

Theo's fine with that. He can lean on Sadde a bit too, and play on his phone. Technology, woo!