"Mum getting all teary-eyed and everyone trying to hug me at once? Yeah, pretty much," she says. "Mum getting all teary-eyed and everyone hugging me one at a time was also a top contender."
"Have the 'cherubs and rosebuds' gotten this treatment?" Amariah wonders.
"Ma belle," says the Beast, teleporting over, "mes cheries, the Jokers are coming to hug everyone." And he hugs his wife and then both of his children.
"Do they know how to hug angels?" Keziah asks. "I had to teach Gideon how so he'd stop poking me in the wing."
"It depends whether you're taller or shorter," says Keziah. "Or the same height."
"One of the Jokers also has wings!" exclaims Céleste.
"Angels can hug each other," says Keziah. "But it makes it harder to do wrapping! Unless one of us is much bigger than the other. I'm still little enough to get wrapped up when Mommy hugs me even though I have my own wings in the way."
"Aianon does have wings," he agrees. "And a tail. It's a very huggable tail."
Keziah hugs her uncloid happily.
"Extremely huggable," he says, hugging Céleste and curling his tail around her, "see?"
Céleste giggles. "Papa has a tail too sometimes! It is fluffy but I don't hug it."
Keziah tugs his tail away from her alt and attempts to hug it.
"Tails aren't for pulling," says Céleste. "My Rainier squawks awful if I pull his tail so I don't."
"You are exactly right," he says, giving Céleste an extra gentle squish and then letting go.
Céleste spins around, looking for her next hug target, and Keziah tiptoes forward looking innocent.