At the question Fiona froze for a moment, remembering that not all of those who ended up at the Teahouse had ever had family, but she couldn't help the way her eyes softened, her heart leapt at the thought of her family, of her father. And so she nodded shyly and led Adi toward the elegant table that held her basket, her journal laying near the food. She settled herself down with a smile at him, hands moving to separate out the sandwiches into an even two piles, the two apples, and the bottle of water between them. The cookie like biscuits she merely untied and left sitting in the middle. "There, just perfect, I'm glad I let them press on me a bit more then I normally eat."<br/><br/>She tucked her legs under her chair and picked up the red shinny apple, playing with it in her hands as she thought of his question and how to answer it. "I did, I was an only child. My father was an author and my mother a scholar." She lowered the apple, her eyes on it for a moment as she thought of those years, watching her father waste away and her normally happy features showed the sorrow of that loss that still made her heart ache, still made her cry sometimes at night.<br/><br/>"When I was eleven he took ill, he didn't recover no matter what the doctor's did. He passed on two years later and it was just me and my mother." The redhead lifted the apple upward, gazing at it, finding it easier then looking at someone else while she knew tears shimmered in her eyes, threatening to spill. "My mother remarried when I was seventeen, after I left home to seek my own fortune; she's happy now. My father was...oh he brought magic to life. Unicorns were the least of it I fear, and if my imagination is over active now its only him to blame, my mother steadied us both, the wise one."<br/><br/>Fi took a bit of the apple and then looked at Adi again finally, a ghost of her normal smile soft on her lips. "They are good, and I write to her still, every week at least. Though I'm sure listening to me ramble about my parents is not the most fun of picnic discourses to be had. What do you do for fun Adi?"