"I can understand that. I think if families are around long enough, they often become difficult to explain." Convoluted messes; his is complicated for different reasons, but that is for another time.

He wishes there was a better way to explain things that didn't involve his terms--but translating it into other words was difficult. Still, Chiron seemed to understand. "Yes; almost like folding a map in two, and just moving directly from point to point." That was a vast oversimplification, something he didn't like to do--but without fully defining terms, it was perhaps a better way.