The meal prepared for Spark and her friends looked delicious to eat though the group was a little hesitant to eat it as most of it looked foreign to the group. Spark assured them that pretty much all the food was digestible for human consumption. In no time, Connor and the rest were enjoying their meal with Spark's family and talked about how Connor and Spark began dating each other. Nova found it sweet how Connor took her daughter to a dance and gave her a night she definitely wouldn't forget. Arion then asked how the rest of Connor's family was and was shocked to hear that Jacob had lost an arm to a vampire assassin, but was glad to hear his recovery had gone well and was now going to have two more children from Nina.
"There is something that has bothered me." Connor noted to Spark's family.
"What's that dear?" Nova asked.
"Well, Spark told another friend of ours who told me later that Spark said when fairies like each other they just...uh....bone and get done with it." Connor explained causing some of his friends to gag a little bit. Meanwhile Spark's siblings started to snicker and some of them started to laugh while Spark slid down a little in her chair blushing red whilst her parents rolled their eyes.
"Spa'kalth, did you really tell humans we do that?" Nova asked her daughter as she gave her mother an impish grin.
"Ugh, Spark. If you're trying to show your friends our culture, why must you distort our culture?" Arion asked.
"No, dad, please don't explain it. Just let humans think we just bone and get it over with." Star chuckled.
Arion and Nova looked at each other and nodded then got up from the table and stood a little ways away from it.
"Children, when fairies want to...uh...reproduce with each other, we don't just 'bone' and get done with it. When spring comes we fairies participate in what's essentially known as 'the rite of spring'." Nova explained.
"Oh, just like that orchestra piece." Rei pointed out as the others looked at her. "My mom tried to make me learn classical music for a time until I decided it wasn't for me."
"At any rate, fairies who finally come of age, come together and perform a dances with each other. From sunrise to sunset, fairies dance with each other, until they feel....a connection with one fairy. Sometimes fairies don't find a partner at the end of that day and they wait until next spring to find their match." Arion explained further as he and Nova began dancing with each other as Zee played a tune on his violin.
"It took me a couple of tries, but when I danced with Arion, I felt....whole. I was still working with Jacob's grandfather Malcolm at the time, but took a little time off to go perform the rite. I didn't think I'd find my match, but your father has made my life worthwhile since then." Nova said as she and Arion finished their dance and sat back down.
"So Connor, that is how we fairies truly mate with each other, not....how you first heard it." Nova said glaring at her young daughter.
"I did actually have another question." Miles said. "Is it true how fairies act sometimes like in Peter Pan?"
Spark's siblings groaned at this question. "No fairy has actually acted like towards humans in years." Zee said.
"Yeah, it was actually because of all those negative portrayals in fiction that fairies decided to limit ourselves with how many humans actually see us." Cosmo said.
Midna decided to lighten the mood a little and brought out desserts for everyone to eat that she had personally made, that tasted luscious to them. After a while, everyone decided it was time to retire to their rooms and guest rooms.
"Uh, Mother, Father, may....Connor sleep in my room with me? Please? We are technically betrothed." Spark pleaded smiling as she hugged Connor closely who smiled at Spark's parents as well.