El-Melloi II nodded in agreement as Roman spoke of technology. He was preaching to the choir as it were, and it was hard not to notice how he looked at the device that had been placed on the desk. Without hesitation, he turned it on, since clearly Marisbilly was never going to indulge the young man with the actually interesting stuff.

It also made talking about Reines much easier. The circumstances around being adopted by the El-Melloi II family and all of it remained painful and awkward for him, and he sighed as he began to explain. "Teenagerish, with all the pomp and ego of nobility," he said. "She's also technically head of the El-Melloi family, so I have to answer to her in the end."

He hoped the tired tone he used to explain would fend off any further questions. He moved onto Roman's other question, quite content with it. "Well, it depends on what I'm in the mood for. Tactical games or mystery solving games do tend to rank higher overall, but sometimes you do just want to mindlessly run around and not have to put too much thought into it. This," he gestured down at the device, "Is the most recent Admirable Tactics game."

Weirdly enough, it was a decent segue into talking about secrets. "Games also don't require keeping secrets. There's a lot to be said about how demands for family secrecy impact how magi relate to their own offspring."