An abrupt end to the meeting, and another one with Jeralt!

"...well, that last part could have gone better," Sothis pouted, floating alongside Byleth as he walked away from the Audience Chamber, a subtle amount more quickly than strictly necessary. Rhea had gotten so flustered that she had basically kicked them both out, Sothis being her mother be damned, though she certainly reacted better than Byleth expected. Though just before they left, she told him to come to the Holy Mausoleum later that night, she had something to give him, given recent... developments. He wasn't sure what Rhea/Seiros meant, but he would accept.

"You think?" Byleth mentally replied sarcastically. "A little more subtlety in the future would do you some good... Besides, that was apparently your daughter!"

"My very hot daughter!" Sothis justified herself without missing a beat. "Besides, we both know that incest is only considered a bad thing because of the whole inbreeding issue... which my genie magic can adjust for, no problem! Also, not like we could have children in the first place, neither of us have a dong to knock the other up with! ...well, we could, with a wish, but that's beside the point!"

"Regardless, no more trying to seduce Rhea, at least not so blatantly. If, in what I am sure will be the far future if it even happens at all, she decides to join, that's one thing, but right now, it's way too awkward to bring up," Byleth ordered in his mind. Rhea was after all still adjusting to Sothis being back, and a Sex Genie to boot.

"...fiiiiine..." she whined, before they turned the corner, and almost ran right into Jeralt.

"Oh, hey Kid, how's it going?" Jeralt asked Byleth with a grin, glad to see his son after a busy day.

"I've been doing well," Byleth nodded, giving a small smile of his own, surprising Jeralt a bit. Byleth was starting to emote just a bit more often after all this had started happening. He still felt emotions to the same degree as always, save the increased libido he got from Sothis leaking a very small percentage of her own constant horniness into him, but he had opened up a bit more. Albeit the equivalent of just cracking a door slightly. "...when are you going to stop calling me "Kid" though? I'm an adult now."

Jeralt chuckled. "True, but you are still my son. I got the right to call you that until the day I die, which, Goddess willing, is still far off. Sorry, but you're stuck with it. You seem in a good mood. Almost like a weight's off your shoulders."

Byleth paused, and considered. Perhaps he should tell Jeralt about what he had just discovered. He was pretty deeply involved already after all, and if he couldn't trust his own father, who could he trust? Though... he was definitely leaving out the Sex Genie part. Not because he didn't trust Jeralt with that, but, well... he had just seen firsthand how awkward shit like that could get between parent and child, and that was when the parent had no sense of shame whatsoever. No thank you!

"Actually, father, can I talk to you about something?" Byleth asked Jeralt, who raised an eyebrow.

"This seems serious. The Church keeps me busy, but I think I can get away with making an hour right now. Let's go to my office," he told Byleth.

Byleth nodded, and followed after Jeralt, mentally ordering Sothis to not act horny if and when he had her reveal herself, and wear something more modest than her genie garb. No mention of her genie nature allowed. She pouted, and swapped to her original outfit with a finger snap. Still revealing, but not to a point that would raise questions.