"Last I checked, yeah. Weird."

"And you're...absolutely sure your dad is not a maleficer." 

"I dunno what you expect me to have tried to check!"

"Well--I dunno, I can't remember not knowing my dad was, I don't remember how I found out. And it's not that it's public knowledge, that'd be awkward, he's in line to be Dominus of New York." 

"My mom is in line to be the Domina of New York?"

"What's your mom's name?"

"O...phelia...? Why does that matter."

"My dad's name is Oleander Rhys, I was wondering if they, like, matched somehow."

"I guess the last name matches. She hyphenated though."

"My parents hyphenated my name but they each kept their own. Oleander Rhys, Lavinia Walsh, Lucia Walsh-Rhys." 

"Huh. My last name's just Lake."

A suspicious frown enters the bar.

Lucia turns and sizes up the extreme shininess that the frown is attached to. 

"Are you the mal-eating child of the dominsomething-to-be of New York too?"

She opens her mouth.

She closes her mouth.

She does that a couple more times.

"The fuck?????????"

"I'll be honest that's sort of where I'm at too." She siiiiiiiips her free drink. 

"And yet, whatever's going on here, you decided you trust its beverages??"

"It is not blatantly part of a mal which gives it a leg up on some things I tried to put in my mouth when I was three." 

She gives this argument due consideration.

"...okay, I see your point. Fine. I'm not drinking the space wedgie juice, though."

"Suit yourself. You didn't answer my question earlier, and now I'm curious--Ophelia Rhys, Oleander Rhys, other, or I should fuck off and mind my own business." 

"Ophelia Rhys, I, guess??? Are you saying you're my secret long-lost sister with the same fucked-up powers, because, that would be wild, but it doesn't explain the Oleander so actually I think I still have no idea what the fuck is happening,,,"

"So, my parents are Oleander Rhys and Lavinia Walsh, his parents are Ophelia Rhys and some dude with the surname Lake presumably. --I'm Lucia Walsh-Rhys and he's Orion Lake, and should I be making flashcards about all this?" 

"Balthasar Lake. I'm pretty sure I don't have a sister."

"...yeah, Balthasar Lake. And I'm Atalanta. Five minutes ago I was also pretty sure I didn't have a sister but there's a lot happening right now. Why are the options 'me', 'me but my dad is a boy', and 'me but... I... am a boy'???"

A fourth shiny person opens the door and walks into the bar.

Said shiny person immediately unsheathes a short metal rod from where it was attached to a harness under his shirt and shakes it, which causes it to extend into a light saber that he raises up to a defensive position while he scans the... bar... ???? and tries to assess the threat.

"...it's just us, uh, shinies, in here," says Orion to the new person.