Of course, if a mother gets a text message she's going to want a phone call. His mother was content after hearing his voice and rambled on about home and how awesome his brother was doing in law school and how Ember needed to remember to keep up with his studies if he ever wanted a career. She seemed to think his idea of being in musical and plays was absolutely ridiculous. After all, being a super hero was volunteer work. Ember needed a way to provide for himself and apparently he couldn't mooch off his brother because his mom had already called dibs.

So, like most teenagers, Ember decided to ignore his mother's warning and read. Reading was sort of like studying in the way it supposedly increased intelligence but had nothing at all to do with what he was learning at school. He was so absorbed into his book until he started to hear loud noises. And he really, really tired to ignore them. He even attempted to hum to himself so he would't have to leave the book he was reading. Unfortunately, whatever was going on downstairs didn't seem like it was going to end anytime soon. He placed the book under his arms and marched all the way doing to the living room.

The living room... where Nathaniel was in some territory disrupt with some guy? Honestly, what were they? Cavemen? Ember was slightly concerned about the living room's fate. If the team destroyed the room, then what? All they'd be doing is proving their were irresponsible, immature children and possibly get the base taken away. And there was no way after seeing the library, Ember was going to give this place up. So, he decided to play immature with immature. Not that Ember was mature himself; he still burped fire just so to stress his mom out. 

Ember lifted the arm the book wasn't under and smirked as his hand caught fire. "Nathaniel and living room guy, I'm going to give you three seconds to quiet down so I can go back to reading. Or..." Ember threatened, his hand getting dangerously close to the wall. It was a bluff though. There was no way Ember could live for himself if he destroyed that library. And he was also pretty sure Ember's power had been considered during the construction of the base. But... there wasn't a reason for him to admit to the bluff. He just wanted them to be quiet. "So, what do you to say? Play nice with each other or burnt down base?" He asked with a smile.