Really? Seifer was disbelieving in the power of Poppa Stark? The very name makes Nida smile to himself. Oh yes, he's definitely going to use that from now on.

"Seifer, who is the intel trained person? Trust me, I read between lines. Poppa Stark likes you as well as I think an old codger like him might like anyone." Didn't like Nida questioning it either. Said good things but Nida wouldn't repeat them. "I mean, we don't have paperwork and he isn't to make you call him Poppa Stark, but frankly, I think you got pseudo-adopted by the forge, and Stark is Poppa Forge."

Oh that is even better than Poppa Stark. As for the rest? Nida shrugs.

"If you weren't as good then, be better now," Nida suggests, reaching down to take a potato wedge. Yeah, so maybe food is love and he'll accept this affection.Though he didn't realize it was acting as such. After a bite of wedge he waves the rest of it at Seifer. "I've never had a brother before so I'm probably going to be a shit one at first. But friend seems... wrong, given our situation. Given the fact that you're the only one I have that gets how I was raised, you know?"

And what is family other than people you grew up with? People you didn't mean to have ties to but do?

'Found Family' is the term Nida's looking for, but he doesn't know that.