<span style="color: #008040">"Don't go lookin' at me now, I'm just a little old lady. He's the one that knows all about that jibber jabber."</span>Jillian said, pointing a finger at her husband. Meanwhile, Dimitri was still mentally battling himself to get rid of the blush that was on his face from when his mom suggested Alannah was his girlfriend. Alannah confirming it didn't help to ease it at all, but he was still hold a very wide grin, one his mom was giving him the look at. He knew she was just dying to make a little joke about it, but she smiled and let him have this one. It was the wink that let Dimitri know, he could have this one embarrassing moment without having any remarks piled on. Her gift to him, this one time.<br/><br/>Herschel looked at Dimitri, and Dimitri only nodded. It was his way of saying he trusted Alannah, she wouldn't ever misuse this information.<span style="color: #0080BF">"Well,"</span>he began,<span style="color: #0080BF">"I spent my life doing many favors for powerful people, but nearly every single one of them fell under one being. I was always rewarded with something or other, whether it be an antique, trophy of sorts, weapon, tool, I was always given something that was beyond a normal day's pay. The greatest tools were the kinds that I was able to use for only a short while, when I was doing this work."</span>He paused in the middle of it, he wielded great power that humans were never able to. In that moment, he wished he'd taught Dimitri more about it than he'd had.<span style="color: #008040">"He got to control water with his mind and hands! I wish I could do that. But with metal objects. I wanna make pots and pans float about!"</span>Jill interjected, bringing a smile back to her family's faces.<br/><br/><span style="color: #0080BF">"After so long, I'd done more than a lifetime of work for him. He asked me what I wanted in return. I told him I just wanted a nice and quiet life with my wife, one where it would be safe. He told me he would grant me this, that any being with only malevolent intent would be deterred away so long as their purpose wasn't to be here exactly. However, nobody knows about this place, save for us and a few others. Of course, for something so long lasting, he wanted me to do one final thing for him."</span>He stared at Dimitri, still proud of how he had raised him.<br/><br/>It was Jillian who had once again broken the silence of sentiment.<span style="color: #008040">"Well, to be fair, you didn't really get your wise. There's no quiet life when it comes to living with me. So... you almost got it."</span>She said, smirking afterwards and shrugging.<span style="color: #008040">"So, I was busy being a so-great mother earlier, I nearly forgot to ask. What's it like being half shark? Do ya ever swim around scaring people at the beach? Oh, and, what's it like being under the ocean? Do you ever tell boys that you have a shark tail? People used to think that was seriously attractive! And, not real, but hey, that's close minded of them!"</span>