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[shesepankh]

Saturday morning sees Bella with her notebooks about magic all in her knapsack, her medallion safety-pinned by its chain to her bra just in case she trips the wrong way, waiting with Charlie for pickup for the Avalon trip.

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[shesepankh]

"Makes sense."

[castmyown]

Brotherly hug. This is what brothers are for. That and fetching things.

[morethanimaginary]

Savannah accepts the hug, hugging back, then laughs and says, "Thanks, dork. I'm good, get off of me."

[castmyown]

"Mhm," says Darren, who stops hugging.

[morethanimaginary]

"You have taken it almost as well as Darren had!" Savannah informs Bella. "You get a gold star. When we can get gold stars."

[shesepankh]

"Almost as well? Did he throw confetti?"

[morethanimaginary]

"No, he was like, 'Yeah, I kind of already know, I am glad you have trusted me enough to tell me up front, come here I will hug you.'"

[castmyown]

Darren laughs. "I didn't already know, I'd suspected! It's different. But I'm not denying that there were hugs."

[shesepankh]

"I didn't spend any time wondering about it, so I did not suspect except in the general 'yep, that's a trait that exists in the population that is not visually obvious' sense."

[castmyown]

"She had been checking out various girls," informs Darren.

[shesepankh]

"Ah, I tend not to notice that sort of thing. I didn't know my -" Swallow. "I didn't know my mom's 'friend' was her boyfriend till she told me straight out."

[castmyown]

Darren notices, but doesn't comment. "To be fair, she's my twin. It's easier to see her act like herself around people than a parent do the same."

[shesepankh]

"Act like herself?"

[castmyown]

"Okay, I explained that badly. Parents do a thing where they put you first and that includes changing how they act in some subtle ways to make things better for you. Great for you, but not so great for fidelity of certain things. A sibling doesn't feel the need to do that as much. So, it's easier to notice."

[shesepankh]

"Ah. Wouldn't know, only child."

[castmyown]

Darren nods. "Yeah. It seems so weird to not have Savannah be there."

[morethanimaginary]

"Love you too, dork."

[shesepankh]

"Aww."

[morethanimaginary]

"Okay, any more mushy stuff and I will fling myself out of the window. Darren! Pick a topic! Not magic!"

[castmyown]

"... Um. Um. ... So I am working on excitement for studying supposedly extinct things?"

[shesepankh]

"Do you need to work on that? I had the impression you already found us extinct things pretty interesting."

[castmyown]

"I do but it has to compete with magic, and that's no small feat."

[shesepankh]

She laughs. "Well, it wouldn't hurt if you were focusing especially on all that lost magic, huh?"

[castmyown]

Darren snickers. "I mean, I kind of want to be able to make more medallions. But to get that far, I need to learn lots of the basics of magic. So... I kind of am focusing especially on the lost magic, but I need a general education before I can do that."

[shesepankh]

"So you're all set. As long as you've either gotten better at lying recently, or have half-truths carefully lined up."