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Tirush gains a small frown, her brows dropping slightly. "'See' her?  Why should you want to 'see' her?  Why would you not send your drawn words, instead of coming across the land, all this way?"

"I-It's because he wanted to meet all of you, Mama Tirush," Lucida says, her voice quiet but steady. "H-he told me before that he wanted to come by and meet all of you." She gives a small, unsure smile.

"Well, then, now he has met us," Tirush says, sniffing and seating herself next to Thomas on the wide couch opposite. She solves the problem of room for her tail bu wrapping it around Thomas, draping it across his lap. He lifts his saucer up and out of the way without missing a beat.

"And now I will ask you a question," Tirush says, settling in. "Now that you are here, and have met us, what will you say?  Is this visit here, to Lucida's home, everything that you thought it should be?"