"You're right, all I have to do is get into Julliard with a toddler. By magic. - is there magic for that."

"I mean there's magic for that but we don't use it because messing with people's heads is bad. ...I bet it wouldn't take much to get my aunt excited about how you should get the opportunity to go to a cool music school and make cool music there, though, and she might be able to help out in, like, normal ways by knowing things about how fancy schools work."

"That works too! I'm excited to meet her, she sounds great. Does she live in this house with you guys?"

"No, she has her own place with her kids, but they visit a lot."

"Would I know the cousins or do they go to a different school?"

"Same school, but Meg's in the year below us and Ash is younger, I forget by how much. Not young enough to be in Tia's class."

"Oh, I think Ash is in chorus, second alto?"

"That sounds very plausible. Is the Ash you're thinking of a tiny brunette who keeps her hair in a pinned-up braid?"

"Yup! With the black cat pin on her folder."

"Then yeah, that sounds like her. Neat!"

"Are they expected for a visit any time soon or is it more of a spontaneous thing?"

"Usually more spontaneous, arranged a few days in advance if that, unless it's somebody's birthday or a holiday or a ritual that needed months of advance planning in which case we know ahead of time. I assume they'll be coming over sometime this weekend or next so they can meet you, though."

"I am a new and exciting sideshow attraction. The Amazing Egglaying Girl."

"Nah, somebody laying an egg isn't that interesting. Somebody playing the piano like that is much cooler."

"Lots of people play the piano!"

"But how many of them live in my house?"

Giggle. "Just me. Is magic music done on the piano or do you sing it or what?"