"I was reading," Seth says, without being sardonic, merely factual, "Then I stopped. How is the paperwork going?"
It's the kind of thing Seth would have demanded responsibility for, once, and there had been a brief and quickly lost argument about it when it came up. Seth still wasn't particularly happy about Jonah doing it on his own, and he was determined to review it before it was turned over to any authorities. Jonah's efforts to prove his independence weren't going to put them into foster care if Seth could help it.
"That isn't really why I called you." Seth smooths the blanket over his legs (one of those soft gestures Jonah makes, the things Seth latches onto like articles of faith) before looking up again at his shorn brother. "I think we should talk about what we're going to do."