"So..." Marco says thoughtfully, eyeing Kai curiously with a new kind of understanding. "You're half and half." It's a surprise to be honest. He had expected something else. Maybe there's a fleeting chance that he's not dying his hair after all.

"And then raised by the third," Marco observes. He can feel that fondness, the bitterness that might come from facing so much disbelief, and plenty of anger, which doesn't surprise him in the least.

"That sounds like a rough beginning for a life," he says quietly.