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

[aestivation]

You can't change having been apart. But if you are always family, you always were. You already know how to be a sister, the rest is only practice.

[strangel]

Okay.

( She sounds very very uncertain. )

You talk strangely. Why is this?

[aestivation]

I'm not from here. The language is sometimes difficult.

[ he's pretty sure that's not what she's talking about. he's pretty sure, too, that it's at least a point in common. ]