[ ajax's dismay is her amusement, and lumine is very happy to egg his mother to continue this little agenda against her own son. again, payback for everything he's had done for the past few weeks, leading up to the events earlier that day. she doesn't even bat an eyelash when he plops onto one of the armchairs with a clear pout on his face.

at the mention of anatoli, his mom turns to her and expresses surprise that she's met one of her older sons. ]

Yes, he was very gracious towards me and my brother when we went to Snezhnaya.

[ his mother leads her to the line of photos along the fireplace shelf, pointing out who's who. it's amusing how most of them are pretty much a carbon copy of their father with bright ginger hair and blue eyes.

this is ajax, and his sisters. i heard you met one of them already, tatia. and this is anatoli and sergei. i think these pictures were taken a few years before we moved to fontaine. ]

Anatoli's a handsome kid even back when he was young, wasn't he?