"Probably more a matter of two obnoxious forces canceling each other out or something else pseudo-scientific." Elisha waved a hand vaguely; pretending to know nothing when it came to mathematics and the sciences had become a habit by now, a way of concealing his old life, despite the fact that working in glass required a firm grasp on chemistry. His life in the IDF and in Mossad had required that and more besides, but he hadn't wanted anyone to question why the new Three setting up a glass house and volunteering to sketch the then-toddler Eileen Eicheln would have such a grasp on the harder sciences. "But I've heard that it doesn't work on siblings anyway. Plus," he added, inclining his head at the new Jack of Spades.

"If you ask me, which I know you haven't, Jordan mostly looks suspicious of my intentions towards his little brother. Tegan is probably imagining new potential levels of hell, and Avery is just generally skeptical of the idea of love and romance ever ending well. " Rumor had it that one of his Eights was to blame for that, but rumor also had it that that particular problem had emerged several years before she and Lucas Addison ever dated.