The front door opened with the noise of bags rustling, voices overlapping, Sophia saying something that made Saahira laugh before they had even fully stepped inside.
Two hours had passed since the brothers had been left alone, and to anyone walking in now, it would have looked very much like nothing had happened in that time at all. The three of them were exactly where they had been left, settled into the sofa with the comfortable stillness of men who had nowhere better to be.
"Big Brothers. You are all just... sitting here?" Sophia's voice carried the specific disbelief of someone who had expected to find no one. "For two hours?"
"We were waiting for you," Venedikt said simply.
Kathleen set her bags down and gave them the look, narrowed eyes that scanned the surroundings, expecting something. "Waiting for us to do what, exactly?"
"We were thinking of giving a proper welcome home surprise," Venedikt said, perfectly composed.
