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[harmonial]

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[birding]

I will mark the date.

( for their date

... suspend disbelief, for a moment. because here, he doesn't have a busy schedule to tend to that would impose upon his freedom to spend time with his sister otherwise. )

I won't ask for all of your time, but I hope we will get to see each other often.

Preferably before you have enough experiences to fill an entire letter to me.

[harmonial]

[It's such a small thing, that polite little hope offered out to him. That here, perhaps they can make up for all their time apart despite new and difficult circumstances.]

Well. With these Watches, I doubt we'll be as limited in communicating with each other as we were with letters. I'm sure it won't go so far.

[The practical answer. And then, more true to himself —]

Thank you, sister.

[birding]

( ... to be fair, they had phones, too. but business as usual meant that texts were sparse between tours, between family meetings, and the more that she thinks about it, the more she wonders what else might've slipped between the cracks. if she had called more often. if she had been there at all. if his flowing script could have been traded for his soft voice in her ear, before bed, more often, and if it might've kept them closer so things wouldn't have blindsided her so severely.

... but there's no point thinking of what could've, should've, would've happened. not here, when the happening happens whether she likes it or not. )

... you're so silly, brother. You have nothing to thank me for.

not me deliberately ending the thread on comment 69 of this post

[harmonial]

[He has plenty to thank her for, yet not enough courage to argue the subject — understanding that she will forgive it all, one excuse right after another, without question. Because that is how she is, and how much love she carries for the world around her even when it remains undeserving. When he is undeserving.

So, he leaves it there.]