002.

[strangel]

FORM: Crystals
SENDER: Helena
RECIPIENT: everyone
WHAT: ??? family ???
WHEN: Early May
WHERE: Kirkwall
NOTES: (some talk of death and trauma in a few threads) when can she acquire her custom spec in sestrahood?

Hello crystals. I have question.

( There is a long pause before Helena continues. Long enough that it could seem plausible that the question is never coming. And then, with a rush, )

How do you be good twin?

I'm— not sure how to be good sister. We were being apart long time. I thought maybe peanut butters would be good present, but I think it made Sarah unhappy.

( Stiltedly, ) I stole her crystal, do not play this for her. Thank you.

Comments

[nadasharillen]

Nahariel. Nari is fine. You're... Helena, right? [she's pretty sure she'd heard the woman's name come up in some previous answers]

[wryly] I don't know about wise, but I hope it helps you. Family is everything-- even more, I imagine, in a new world.

[strangel]

Helena, yes. My sestras are Sarah and Cosima.

Family can be complication making and much confusing.

[nadasharillen]

Oh! I've met Cosima, although only briefly. She's a kind and clever woman. Have you spoken with her about this? [she assumes, since only Sarah had been mentioned originally, that the sisterly difficulty was between the the two of them.

she belatedly realizes that Cosima has a crystal and has therefore almost certainly heard this message.]

As for family... yes. But I think most things worth having are.