Sleeping Dragon Out of my league

Gyda supplied the term and Wildfire just nodded vigorously. She didn't expect the incoming mention of difficulty with the lifestyle, however. She was not necessarily intimately acquainted with the ins and outs of polyamory, yet she knew both her parents practiced it. Their guidelines and attitudes sounded quite different from those practiced in Gyda's family. For starters, Peregrine and Fox did not have multiple spouses; their extramarital affairs were, perhaps unfairly, secondary to their own marriage. And, of course, they only took same-sex lovers on the side.

"My parents do something similar, though it sounds like they play by a different set of rules," Wildfire said without embellishment. The details were her parents' business, it was just interesting that this was just one more thing she and Gyda had in common. She idly wondered if Floki had ever considered multiple lovers, although he'd more or less given up on his birth family's traditions. It didn't really matter much now anyway, did it? It didn't matter at all.

"I actually know your brother." The words just whooshed out of her while she was busy thinking of what to say next. She felt heat creeping across her skin. "At least, I think Floki's your brother? Right?"