The reunion was, by every measurable standard, a success.
No one had bled, declared war, or been escorted out by security.
The children behaved… mostly.
Sebastian's foam fort survived the day like a small nation that had somehow avoided annexation. Cassius managed to enforce rules long enough for everyone to acknowledge his authority, which - tragically - only encouraged him. Layle's plush tribunal expanded into a full legal system, complete with sentencing - mostly for Zion. Zion did, in fact, commit at least three acts of toy-vehicle violence, but all of them were technically non-lethal and therefore, in Saha, counted as 'growth.'
Nero sneezed on Cressida twice more.
Cressida pretended not to be delighted and failed spectacularly.
