She drops down from the branch. "I'm Megan. Eoh. It's a pleasure to finally meet the Argent clan I've heard so much about."

"I wish it were under better circumstances. Maybe we should all go inside. Victoria can make us some tea."

"Actually—"

"Sounds good," she says, walking past Nica and into the house.

"—oh why not."

Victoria makes tea.

"Alistair, dear, could you come down here?"

Mr. Argent leads them to the kitchen table.

"So, let's discuss what comes next."

Alistair hurries downstairs, pausing halfway as he sees the guests.

"Hello."

They both sit.

"You're the one I saw on the video!"

"...I am."

"Was this her idea?"

"We all supported it."

"And what exactly was the decision there?"

"The Cardcaptor, chosen by Clow Reed himself, decided that the status quo needed changing. I wasn't going to say no."

"Oh, cool, I'm in."

"—you what."

"I can understand that you're concerned, but we could do a lot of good if rich, old sorcerers didn't try to hoard their power."

"Alistair, I don't think you understand at all."

"It's selfish and stupid not to use our magic to help people, and this is a first step in that direction."

"Is this your girlfriend talking, or your uncle?"

"Neither. It's me."

"Look, that's all nice and fine but there are consequences, there's a reason this has been a secret forever."

"Are they better reasons than my parents came up with? Their reasons were 'because it's tradition'."

"Alistair, please give this up."

"It's because there's a lot of people with magic but who don't have the magical tradition and if everyone knows magic is real then who knows what they'll do? It'll be chaos!"