Emily listens to the words coming out of her fosterling's,-- really, her friends',-- mouth as she pops into the kitchen and immediately goes into how she wants to see her family. Nevermind the pale blue coloring, which she'd learned from experience was not the best sign on her mood-ring of a friend, but still not at all ready to have this conversation. Certainly not<em>today</em>, of all days,-- but, well, life never gives a Winter Courtier a problem that she can't figure out some way to deal with. Step one, diffuse the immediate situation. "Sit down, breakfast is in a minute. We can talk about your family afterwards, okay?"<br/><br/>That seemed to placate her friend, which Emily was grateful for, concentrating on her thoughts while she continued cooking their meal for the day. If she wasn't really good at cooking eggs and sausage, she'd probably have burned something dividing her thoughts as much as she was, deciding exactly how she wanted to handle this: the fact that she was mostly done with the 'cooking' portion of the preparation helped too.<br/><br/>The sat down at the kitchen table, eating their breakfasts while chatting lightly in the nonsensical manner of completely normal people who weren't Changelings, a skill that Emily was trying to teach Glow again. It was easy, after spending even a few years in Arcadia (much less 20!), to forget how to be normal and even a Spring Courtier had to be careful about spooking the mundanes and making a scene.<br/><br/>Really, Emily thought-- sometimes,-- that the Winter Court should foster<em>all</em>new Changelings. Blending in tended to be one thing that they all needed refresher courses on...<br/><br/>Finally, just before Glow was tempted to once again ask about her Family,-- before they'd fully finished eating, but more or less at the end of the meal, at the 'polishing things off' stage-- Emily brought up the subject herself: "So, you know, your family..."<br/><br/>"...let me put this as delicately as I can. You know how you didn't realize that you'd only been gone 5 years, and how it took you a long time to wrap your head around that? There's another issue, like that,-- something you don't know that makes it<em>very complicated</em>to just pop in on your folks."