"Me an' Asher are six," said Miraya, pleased to be the older kid. Sometimes her mothers' friends -- or the Scooby Gang: The Original Series like Uncle Andrew called them sometimes -- were a bunch of big kids themselves. (Their home life was never boring.) "But we're not s'posed to get fixed up with magic."

She had, a couple of times, but shh.

Asher adjusted his glasses and beamed up at Sookie. "I like your pancakes almost as much as Mom's," he told her.