The ones that were arrogant to him he politely asked if they were being arrogant as a challenge to him, which quickly deflated them. He only had to do it once or twice before word got around, but it didn't hurt to remind them that they were STILL his children, and he was the biggest, baddest being here, and as their father, he had a right, privilege and duty to box their ears if they wouldn't give him the respect he deserved as both the lord of the land and their father. The younger ones got his full attention, treating their discovers as being just as important as the ones he, Serena, and Nadriina made in the labs, because for them it was.<br/><br/>Bastetta was away, learning at the greater aspect's hip how to run the city-state that was Dragon Roost, and while it wasn't doing as well as he said it might at the meeting with the emperor and his accountants, it was still generating more of a profit to the kingdom, due to them sinking less funds into it. So while it looked like it wasn't as productive as it had been, something the nobles there were slyly and subtly, or not so much, pointing out every chance they got, it was still making even more in tribute because of the smaller portion of support from the palace, something the aspect would loudly and cheerfully point out, before backing its argument up with all the facts, rather than the one that happened to support the current view. He was worried about Bastetta getting sucked into the mire that was the local politics, not so much now that her hormones had started to settle, but he did trust her good sense and level head, something she had gotten from her mother.