"Nope, you're good! Talk to you later, enjoy your lassi."

"Later!" Click.

("I wonder if the mothergifts thing only cares about biological descent, or if someone born in your world could access them if they had been adopted by a family here.")

"Huh, interesting question. My magical girl addon has a mothergift upgrade I'd enjoy if I could get it."

"You're probably not looking to get adopted, though--although I suppose the two of you could pool sets of parents, at least assuming your parents are also doppelgangers of each other."

"Ren and Charlie Swan."

"Renée and Charlie Swan. So I guess so! - why is your last name Swan."

Shrug. "Somebody Anglicized. I don't know a whole ton of family history besides, like, the reason there was more than one Japanese family in that one tiny B.C. town is that the locals were conscientious objectors to internment."

"Good for them but also I don't think I knew Canada had internment camps and not just the US."

"Yeah, they did. America is neither uniquely good nor uniquely bad."

"Yeah. But you always want any given bad thing to happen less. Anyway, like I said, good for them."

"Swan is a pretty name however it happened."

"Yeah, I like it. - May is not a Japanese name, it's short for Mabel, but my middle name is Mariko."

"Marie. Huh."

"Not the first case of similar but not identical names..."

"Well, yes. It's just interesting."

"It very much is. It makes me want to find additional doppelgangers just to study it."

"Tentatively suspect Lucasta can't find anybody who's not one of her warlocks and I bet a Caio would be an academic no matter how shiny the swag."

"I considered academic but the swag was ever so shiny."

"Human witches can be academics and warlocks at the same time, approximately. Although most of us don't."

"I don't think I had that available, since I was getting the Lucasta Special."

"But a native Caio could, theoretically. It's not likely, but it's possible."

"If he's a neutral, which is hardly a given."

"It's not an especially exciting choice, but I don't know if he likes exciting - and plenty of people have natural awakenings and don't get to pick."

"He admittedly might not like exciting."