"If I said 'yes', would it matter?" He clearly doesn't mind, though, if the arm coming around the younger man's waist is any indicator. This is obviously just the way things go with these two, don't mind them.

"Don't worry, Espie. I don't think Father Aidan will mind." He really won't. The Voidseeker is big on having company and it's kind of a running jibe that he's got empty nest syndrome since everyone in Netsach count as his children. Josh won't ever say that out loud though, he respects the man too much to tease him. "And if you hang around on the lawn long enough, you'll meet one of my best friends, Rethe. He's an angel."

He really couldn't resist dropping that. The girl is adorable, and Josh is big on the belief that the best way to ease her into her new life is to just talk about things like dragons and angels as givens -- because really, in Netsach, supernatural or deadwalker, functional immortal or not, everyone was just family.