[ Yeah, he doesn't get it. That much is obvious in the way he raises an eyebrow and tilts his head into the pillow quizzically. He's too tired to ask though, so he doesn't. He just files the name away as something to potentially look up in the library sometime. ]

No, I don't think they have kids. It might just be in all of us even, I'm not sure how they're chosen. It just . . . happens.

[ That sort of seems to be the case with Allen. One day an Exorcist, next a Noah. Except cross had known, hadn't he? ]

But yeah, when they're killed the gene just reawakens in the next person.

[ Did they even have any hope of winning the war? Probably not. It's something he's been realizing more and more.

And of course she would ask about Bookman. The Old Panda would object to Lavi revealing anything ("Only Bookman can reveal information about Bookman." ) but too bad, Bookman isn't here to shut him up. It's not like the purpose of the Bookman clan was that much of a secret anyway. His tone lightens slightly. ]

Oh, that? I belong to the Bookman clan. Bookman senior is— well, Bookman. I'm his apprentice. Our purpose is to observe and record "secret" history. We're like traveling historians, yeah?