[There. That's better. Yuan squeezes gently before letting go, heading around to where Genis and Sheena are to look over their shoulders. Whatever they're doing is keeping them fairly quiet, and he's... not concerned, but interested.]

[I've tried. Your son naturally prefers to charge ahead, but he's learned something of restraint anyway. It does make Yuan wonder if Kratos was ever like this, before they met.]

I'm trying to decode Sheena's language.

[Genis explains this very matter-of-factly when Yuan prods gently for an explanation of what they've gotten them into. Sheena huffs.]

And I keep telling him, there are rules about who's allowed to learn it.

It's not a very good ninja code if a twelve-year-old can decode it.

[Although Genis sounds reasonable, this devolves within a moment or two. All the same, Yuan isn't sorry he asked.]

[Raine is just happy they're occupied... well, not fruitfully, but enough that she can continue to focus on what Lloyd and Kratos are doing. She nods approvingly at Kratos's initiative with examples, though she's wondering how to tell him gamboled may be slightly advanced vocabulary.]

[Yuan adds, absently, from across the table:]

Don't think I don't see that.