3.

"You could always like someone else."

He was torn between backhanding his sister across the face and letting her eat his feathers but it was so nice to see her in a good mood he wasn't willing to jeopardize it by being an asshole yet.

Yet.

"I could." Koh snorted. "But you weren't clear. Is it the phoenix mating like or the 'let's shag until we pass out' like?"

Because their parents were apparently phoenix people just like Sayo was a dragon person.

Keren turns up her nose. "I don't know. What's the difference?"

"Prude," Koh says without any heat.

"You're supposed to wait." She rolled her eyes at him. "That's what you do, Koh."

About sixteen years too late to hen over me. "Only for you, sis."

"What's that supposed to mean?" She was picking up something to throw, which was abnormal for everyone but her. Even Sayo didn't throw things. At least this was a bread roll.

"That we have differing cultural values and belief systems?" he offered, going back to his food. "Nothing else, Nee-san."

She still hit him with the roll.