He can't help wondering how many kids those kids will have, and how many cousins, uncles, aunties there might be.

As for his name, it's not something people regularly comment on. "My surrogate mother picked it out, kinda. She thinks it's tied in to my destiny. Not that anything remotely connected to the phoenix has cropped up in nine hundred years," he shrugs. "So it's prob'ly just an element name she happened to like."

Oh, how wrong he is.