"Yeah..." Mikaela said with a nod, acknowledging that it was probably true. Despite how long Tieria'd been living with her, she still didn't really know much more about him than when he'd first moved in. If Nena said he wasn't magic, he wasn't magic.

She shrugged. "Maybe he was that desperate?" she suggested. It made her frown, though--he couldn't be desperate to get away from here, from her, could he? No, that couldn't be it. "Or maybe he has friends we didn't know about, or something..."