Niranufoti

I recall one strip explaining magic terminology, with someone (Susan or Nanase, I think) for "awakened", Sarah (this was after she got her mark) as "dreaming" and Diane as "sleeping". That might have just been mainpulative misdirection, but I still would be surprised. However, I'm pretty sure there are ways for sleeping people to start dreaming without a mark (or are you trying to tell me Nanase and Elliot were born dreaming?), so I wouldn't be too surprised if that happened during such things as a fight in the mall. EDIT: Here's the comic in question: http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2193 She already knows he knows how to fight, so I'd say that's a really big "maybe".

Somehow I've got the feeling this will end with a horde of aberration mercenaries swarming the mall. There's no bonding experience like fighting a bunch of magical monsters together. I wouldn't be surprised if Susan can summon multiple swords and give one of them to Diane.

You mean we didn't SEE her around Susan and Diane right? Except she can go invisible - and usually IS invisible. I already mentioned I expect she did background check on all friends of her grand-godson just like Edward did, just with different methods. She did seem quite able to miss rather big things and people, such as the whole So A Date At The Mall storyline (because she was napping), or even Catalina, whom she only took note of around Halloween (EGS:NP), even though she is directly connected to Susan as well as Rhoda, whom Pandora already marked. Also, she didn't even know about Dex being controlled and almost blowing up the dojo with Grace, whom she considers family, inside. Immortal abilities aside, Pandora doesn't seem too attentive.

Inb4 Sirleck is a descendant of Adrian.

Unless that wasn't Pandora, which is also possible. Assuming I got everything right, Pandora was at Heka's (hearing about the lie she'd passed on to herself) on Monday or Tuesday, whereas the Jerry encounter (where she might've heard about Susan and Diane) was on Wednesday night. This encounter between Sarah and Box apparently takes place on Thursday, so she probably wouldn't have had too much time to do more research, much less about Adrian's possible descendants, since that would probably involve talking to him. Of course, if she knew about his sex life and the unexpected appearance of children before, it's quite possible that she only now, after hearing the truth from Heka, put two and two together. Another possible interpretation of "of course they were his" could be that "they" are more powerful magic users in general and "he" is the guy with the mantle of Heka. That was my first idea. Though that probably wouldn't quite explain why this problem affects Adrian as much. I kind of can't shake the feeling that Dan has a bigger plot twist planned. All the speculation in this thread seems too straightforward – Adrian leading a sex life, accidentally fathering children even he doesn't know about (or doesn't want to believe they're his), based on how vehemently he denies his fertility, and them being ancestors to Susan, Diane and potentially others. It seems too normal. Quite frankly, I'd be a bit disappointed if there isn't more to this.

Guys, all this speculation is nice and even largely coherent, but do we actually know that Pandora knows about Susan and Diane? I mean, sure, that guy with the mantle of Heka could've told her, but aside from that, I don't think there's ever been any encounter where she would've learned about the not-twin twins.