"Yours is counted under parents, because Nataliem." Pause. "If you weren't aware, Darren, our birth-father is a terrible person."
"Annoyingly arrogant, too, it's not even deserved," snorts Prime.
"If you have any critter parent, you are a critter. If you have one critter parent, or they match, you are that critter; if you have two non-matching critter parents you could be either. If they're using medallions then you get born looking human and stay that way till you get your own of the correct critter type."
"There's a lot of critters who don't know it. I could easily not be the last sphinx, but it sure looks like I'm the only one who's - actively sphinxing."
"I'm not sure I want to meet any fellow sphinxes apart from Renée. Sphinxes as a group made somebody really mad and I don't have that handled yet, it might not be a kindness to them."
"Yeah, it's probably a better idea to get the mages to find the somebody that is upset with sphinxes." Pause. "I would like that to stop, that person or group of people is terrible."
Cypress peers at Darren, seems to come to a conclusion, and then - doesn't say a word.
And then he sighs.
"Am I the only one of us that hasn't killed someone?"
Edarial makes a face and looks generally annoyed with his murderous alts.