Eva had merely given Rhia an appreciative smile, fairly sure the younger woman was quoting a piece of literature, but she didn't want to insult the bibliophile by guessing so when the words could have very well been her own.
Stripes? "You've gotten yours spots just right though," Zap teased, still trying to loosen herself up for the event on the horizon.
"I don't think I would, no," she said with a tiny smile and a flash of pride in her eyes before they moved from her children and back to Rhiannon. "This gave them a better chance of survival - maybe down the road will be a better time to have infants crawling the floors. But everything is still in flux on Asgard..." she sighed, openly.
"And Helheim..." Oy. That was even worse. "Have you spoken with Nate since he conquered a realm?" she smirked. "I didn't get to witness it, but I heard good things. You should go talk - none of us have gotten to chat with you in weeks." Head in the sand trying to bond with her family - psh.