January 7th, 1895 — Adebayo Residence

Kayode had arrived via the London port just a couple of days prior and had then taken the train to Hogsmeade with his cargo. He had taken some time to settle into the Wellingtonshire residence he was renting for his visit. He had gotten some British style suits tailored but they were rather annoying to wear, if he was being honest. So he had opted to wear agbada for his visit with his family members.

Now he was in the residence of his cousins and Grandmother. He had not seen his women cousins since they were young girls, before their Hogwarts days. His male cousins, however, he had overlapped some Uagadou school years with each at some point and was of varying closeness with them. One of the twins lived in Lagos though so obviously he would not be seeing him.

"Iya-nla*," Kayode greeted, unashamedly engulfing the matriarch with a warm hug before stepping back to take a good look at her and his cousins. "How are the British treating you all?"

Ife Gbadamosi, Iphigenia Adebayo, Callista Adebayo
*Grandmother according to some sources

  

Your cousin is coming to stay was, really, quite a vague statement. Genia, of course, had cousins on both sides of her family and while none of them lived in Britain, none of them were likely to pose an embarassment should the come to visit. She had had to prod for more information before the identity of the cousin had been narrowed down—one with whom she shared her Iya, then. Kayode.

Though she had heard of the intervening years from her aunties, her brothers, it had been perhaps a decade since she had last seen Kayode Gbadamosi in person, and the grown man that so warmly embraced their shared matriarch was rather at odds with the teenager she remembered. The height, though, that was the same: her cousin had towered over her at eight, and did so still at eighteen.

His question she left to Iya to answer, instead glancing at Callista, to judge her reaction. Genia was proud, of course, of her Yoruba heritage, spoke the language, had become an animagus before even her transfiguration professor, carried the accomplishments and hopes of her ancestors with her... but she had been born here, upon British soil, as had her sister. Unlike Femi, who had nonetheless been sent 'home' for schooling, both girls had merely visited Lagos, visited Benin. Their father had taken great pains making the girls as English as possible, that they might meld into Society and find success there.

— Ife Gbadamosi Callista Adebayo Kayode Gbadamosi —

  

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"Not half so well as we deserve," Ife said in answer, though her tone was far too jovial to hold any trace of real complaint. She was in high spirits today with Kayode's arrival. Her marriage to her husband may have been pragmatic at best but she had always been fond of the children they shared, and she was doubly fond of all her various grandchildren. It helped matters significantly that she had given her stamp of approval to all of her daughters-in-law (and to her son-in-law Taiwo, for that matter); she might not have been quite so active in their wife-seeking as she had been for her Bosede and her stepdaughters when they were on the marriage market, but none of her sons would have dreamed of marrying a girl had she not first given her blessing to the match.

"How you have grown," she said, which was a standard greeting of hers whether the grandchild in question had grown or not. She visited their homeland far more often than her English grandchildren did, and she had seen Kayode as a grown man on her last visit, but given her attention to Callista's and now Iphigenia's prospects she hadn't been back in half an age, she felt. "Has this English air frozen you through yet, omo omo?"

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