"Yeah!" Quin said, excitedly. "Sometimes you're ponies and we get to ride you and fwy around!"

"And sometimes you're little kids," Cere added. "You're kinda bossy then, Papa, and Mom's a scaredy-cat." Quin nodded, his sister was speaking the truth.

"And sometimes Papa's a girl--" though with his difficulties with l's, the word sounds more like 'girwuh' "--and Mama's a boy!"

"And then there's all the stories that you and Mom and BD and all our aunts and uncles and everybody tells," Cere finished. "We know all about Fandom."

"Which is why we went through the portaw!"