After a breakfast that he hadn't paid for in town, Zeke had set off to find his parents. Finding his parents had been easy enough; they'd both been in town the night before and Mom's scent trail had returned to the dorms only a few hours before.

But Mom's scent continued up, while Dad's was more concentrated on the second floor. That made it easier to figure out which parent he was going to bug first! Why put more effort in when he could just make Mom come to him.

So he was going to take the open door as an invitation (as he would have a closed door, or a locked door, because they were all functionally the same to him), he sauntered inside and surveyed his father in all his teenage glory.

Yeah. Not much has changed. "Dad, I need money for breakfast."

Liar.