Private Finished A Visitor from Home

"Yeah. He's been to a couple of different earths. Sometimes it gives him kind of a soft reset for conning a soul out of someone. And he can sort of exist in multiple places at once."

Thinking this much about her dad was bringing her down.

"By the way. I still have this thing from when I was visiting Dalia in juvie." Chloe pulled a payment card out of her purse and showed Evan. "I think it has money on it still. Want anything from the vending machines?"

Chloe looked surprised to hear about his snack money. Why was he getting all that money? Would it be tacky to ask? She'd let that sit for a second.

"I'll keep that in mind if you ever go to jail again," Chloe smirked. Not that she expected him to ever end up here again. At least she hoped he wouldn't.

"You know, I was just thinking, on the way over here. Aside from my daughter, you're technically my closest relative on this whole planet. Nobody else is even from the same universe as us. I mean..." she shrugged. "Yeah, It's kind of a stretch, I know."

"That was the version of them in this world," Chloe said. "And I'm not even sure I could think of them as family anymore, if I was in your shoes." They weren't the people who raised him. They had kidnapped him from another world so they could use him as a tool of some sort.

"But, if there's any sort of genetic basis for being an aberrant, or whatever we should call that, we might be the only ones here with that. If that makes sense?"

"I hadn't even thought of it that way," Chloe admitted. "But... I kinda feel like I should have, by now. Because, knowing what my dad is, I don't think he even has genetics, but I know I got stuff from him. And the way my daughter..."

She stopped herself. Talking in depth about how her daughter was conceived might be a bit too much information, but it was weighing heavily on her mind again.

"I'm going to leave it at, she has two moms, and neither of us saw it coming. And I'm not so sure how much it involved genetics. But she definitely inherited things from me. And what I'm getting at is, there's so much probably-not-genetics in my family that I should be open to the idea that it's just some weird magic stuff."

"That's part of the beauty of it though." Chloe said. Scholar of the arcane that she was, she had a few interesting theories and facts to add to the conversation.

Eventually, visiting hours would end, and Chloe and Evan had to go their separate ways. Chloe would give him a strained smile at the end. "Let me know when you get out, alright?"