Ivans are playing cards.
Mileses, including Solvei, are debating the wisdom of borrowing another strategy game from Bar; Mark, a voice of caution, does not know what will happen if all of them (Solvei, Mial, Miles, Milo, Stalas) all start screaming at each other in twenty directions.
And -
"I don't know why it's called the Moon Lord. That's just what the soulless un-people call it."
"They look like people but they don't have minds and they can only do really specific things. They can talk, but it's not like talking to a person, it's like talking to a - a book that reads itself out loud."
"...And you survived ten years with that as your only company?" says Miles, looking very disturbed.
She snorts. "Souls don't come in multiples like that. Although for some reason you and you," she points at Mial and then Aurin, "seem to have a lot of extra aliveness, what's with that?"
Aurin looks at Mial, then says, "Well, we're not humans? ...Stalas isn't either but perhaps not in an aliveness-relevant way."
Sable squints at some nametags and then says, "Oh, his weird stuff goes way beyond extra aliveness."
"I took a medical scan of him and it thought his bones were exotic ceramic, but I slightly doubt that's what you mean?"
"Well, your blood is... ...sparky?" she says. "And sort of—a little bit almost like the Corruption but not quite? And yeah, your bones are way not human, they're more like rock than bone, but it's mostly the blood that's glaringly obvious. What kind of not human are you?"
"I'm very curious now exactly what strange things you can tell about each of us," says Mark.
"...If it doesn't add up to 'you are as expected a dragon' for me I may be disconcerted but not in an especially private way," Aurin says.
She stands on a chair to get a better view of everybody.
"You just look like ordinary humans, insofar as I remember what ordinary humans look like—" and she points out Bella, Ivan, Jann, and Solvei.
"You look unnaturally healthy except for those broken bones," this to Milo, "and you look unnaturally healthy too but in a different way," this to Linya.
"You two have some normal bones and some weird bones," Miles and Mark, "and you in particular have like a million old breaks, it's kinda disturbing," Miles. "But the weird bones aren't the same as Stalas's weird bones. They are a different weird."
"You and you," Mial and Aurin, "have all that inexplicable extra aliveness, and you're maybe a little bit unnaturally healthy but not so's I can hardly notice when you're practically glowing anyway."
"You three," the Kevarsin triplets, "I mean, nobody's going to be surprised when I mention the ears and tails, but you have some other weird stuff, I'm not sure what the one thing is but I'm sure it doesn't look comfortable, and the other thing I can't even tell that much, it's just vague and weird."
"And as for you," Milan, "I don't know what the fuck is wrong with you but there's sure something. Possibly multiple things. Nice scars, by the way."
"I'm genetically engineered for, among other things, unnatural health. Unlike Milo's case this does not involve magic."