Asher perked up visibly at the praise. For her part, Miraya looked at him expectantly; she was the more talkative one, but she knew how much her brother liked being the informative one, and she'd let him take the lead. They had an understanding between them, after all.

"Asher Tomaso Maclay," he said as he took his glasses off and started to clean them. (It was something Uncle Giles did all the time, and he'd taken to imitating it even though he didn't know why Uncle Giles did it, and everybody thought it was adorable.) "'s me. An' my sister's Miraya Thalia Maclay."

"You don't call us by the whole thing 'less we're in trouble," Miraya put in.

Asher nodded, smiling sheepishly, and crept over to give Tara a hug. Miraya tended to instigate the trouble, more often than not, but he somehow managed to get into it right along with her.