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 Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:01 am
 Re-wind stared with some bleary confusion at the two bucks in front of her. They looked identical - they even moved in exactly the same way. “Did you know,” she said, though her words might be slurred a tad beyond easy recognition, ”That same-sex twins are very very rare? There have only been a handful of documented cases - you might be a medical curiu - curois -” She paused to get a handle on the word, blinking to try to clear the strange cobwebs that clouded her usually picture-perfect mind and - oh. The two bucks resolved into one. ”You’re not twins. Fascinating! That must be another sideeesh - uh - eef - effect of the fermentation... Hallo! My name is Time After Time. My friends call me Re-wind. Not that I have any.” This sad fact currently struck her as being unbearably hilarious. She started giggling. Having warily held himself in guard position throughout the exchange, Stealjaw gave up and huffed himself onto the ground.
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:02 am
For a brief moment Pieces felt terribly guilty about having said such a potentially offensive and most certainly stupid thing. It quickly faded when the fluffy hair-and-headed doe blabbered on for quite a while.
Being the kindly buck he was, he was struck by her loneliness...and also bewildered by her strange joy. This 'fermentation' sounded like an extremely dangerous thing.
"It doesn't matter, Re-wind," he went for the comforting route, it was the only part of her speech that he'd fully understood. "You have family! See?" He shook his head, flipping his locks. "You're my sister, Re-wind. I'm Broken Things, but my family calls me Pieces. And now I have some." Well, that was untrue. He'd found his father and he had not called him Pieces - it sounded better in his head than out of his mouth.
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:03 am
You’re my sister, Re-wind.
You’re my sister.
SISTER.
She stared at him uncomprehendingly for several seconds before the full ramifications of this sank in. To be fair, such momentous news would have taken some time to register even if her brain hadn’t been wine-addled. (The next morning, she would experience the mother of all headaches, and swear off Mirebeat and Walks-Between’s fermented juices forever, until the next time she was persuaded to try new permutations in the interest of scienceTM.)
”I’m a...” she started, turning over the concept in her mind, ”I’m your...” Then her entire face brightened, and her smile grew to match her sparkling blue eyes, ”You’re my brother?”
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:04 am
He looked her over - yes, he had seen that gold and red on their father, and the hair was unmistakeable. Pieces smiled back, grateful that she seemed to be more lucid now. "Yes Re-wind, I'm your brother. We're family. And there's more of us." He thought that would sound really impressive, but realised in a hurry that he would give the wrong impression. "I - I'm sure of it. I'm looking for the rest of us. Will you come with me Re-wind? And of course your uh," he looked down at the unhappy pet. "Your eaglehound."
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:05 am
The enormity of the situation had cleared her head somewhat - she felt rather herself again as she looked down, calculating, ”While there are two sac clutches, they are relatively uncommon - even more so for both to gain exactly the same hair mutation. Therefore, one could surmise that we should have at least two more siblings, depending on our parents’ mutations.” She paused meditatively, and when she looked up at him, she was smiling again. ”Why, yes! It would be my pleasure to come with you! And my eaglehound’s, too! Stealjaw! Let’s follow my...brother.” She laughed.
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:05 am
“That’s fascinating!” He beamed approvingly, impressed by her knowledge. She would be a great help in the search, and he was so fortunate to find her and her companion today. “Hi Stealjaw,” he nodded downwards, and started to lead the little party away from the devastation that was The Games. “We’ve got so much to share, Re-wind!
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:07 am
”Oh yes,” she agreed happily, falling in beside him as Steeljaw unwillingly climbed to his paws to trod after what was in his opinion merely a total stranger who deigned to claim relation to his beloved mistress, ”You must tell me everything you know - about - about all of us! Families and genetics are so fascinating, I’ve never had the chance to study this in depth before - did you know, one sac in three has one chance in ten to contain twins? It’s true!”
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:07 am
"That’s really interesting, Re-wind!” After all, family and genetics was obviously in his interests, and he suddenly felt like he was letting her down with his ignorance. “I don't know much, really," he admitted as they trotted off. "I've been rudimentarily searching for anyone who looks like me, which seems to have worked somehow...We'll learn about this together." The future seemed quite bright now, even with a disgruntled eaglehound's eyes on his tail. Pieces allowed himself to believe now, more than ever, that he would find them all. In the meantime, he already had a sister, and that was a great victory for an otherwise atrocious day.
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