With all three of her children within her reach, Lilith could feel her inner calm -- or semblance of such -- returning. It was not unlike the ripples on the surface of what used to be still water, smoothing out as they reached the natural end of their lifetime. Cole’s encouragement of Issy’s choice of hair colour drifted right past her as something she could afford to ignore. She was quite aware that Isolde, when she was not drugged, may be an air elemental but she still had a strong enough mind to make her own decision. Decisions like how her youngest needed to hush or she might find her tongue frozen to the roof of her mouth. “Isolde, that is quite enough.” Her tone, she was well aware, would have carried more weight if her daughter had been entirely herself. This did not stop her eyebrow from arching the way it often did before she irrevocably damaged another parent’s view of her by unleashing her element on them.
Giving Cole a frown that brushed his attempt at humour under a figurative rug, Lilith pressed her lips together momentarily. “Indeed.” That grin was not going to move her. “I don’t know; I may consider selling you to scientists,” she commented dryly. Meanwhile, the requests for food had left her feeling hungry. Now that she was made to think about it, she was not entirely sure when the last time she had really eaten was. Icarus had been telling her to eat a full meal for… a few days now, but how much had she actually bothered eating? Lilith could not say. “Yes, of course.” Reluctantly, she pulled away from the hug. Nobody would be fed if they were all mostly attached at the hip. The idea of doing something as normal as eating with her children only highlighted how little energy she had. “Subway it is, then. -- Remind me to get something for your father. We haven’t been food shopping yet.” A pause. “Isolde, you’ll need to get up. I am not carrying you.” Oh, she was aware there was a definite level of trauma running through everyone who had been to homecoming. There were nothing wrong with Isolde’s legs, however. She was causing her mother’s to go a little numb.