"You think I'd open my home to the whole menagerie if I wasn't?" Shannon grinned despite himself, understanding the tone for what it was. It wasn't quite the same spark of happiness that Eli inspired, but there was a warm confidence that filled him whenever Michelle was around too, and he figured that was what it must be like to be in love with two people to two different degrees.

"You sound well yourself," he said, stepping aside to let her in while he shut the door behind her. "Everyone else is in the yard. Well, except for this guy." That said, he gave a large and vague motion over toward Matheus.