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    For the good of us all


    Periwinkle Skies for the first time as a lass.”


    Periwinkle Skies for meself, then I am cordially inviting you to come and have a drink with me before we go and spend the rest of the evening with Pertua’s family!” she declared boisterously.


    Periwinkle Skies, and then you and I can go get a drink somewhere that’s not demolished, then we’ll go our separate ways to be with people who lost someone in all of this. Alright?”


    former sister, now an only child – things she picked up and tried to ignore, hands grasping at her elbows to keep herself from falling apart. She felt no hunger and so had no food. She was surrounded by people she knew and yet felt as though in a room with strangers. All of these cousins and uncles and aunts she hardly knew, not because of any bad blood between family members, no. They simply did not interact very often outside of events where they gathered like this one (although usually under more fortunate circumstances) despite living in the same city. As far as she knew there was no real reason as to why they were as distant from one another as they were. That’s just the way her family was, and consequently she knew basically no one in the room as much as she would have liked except for her godfather and her father, who were both grieving in their own way. Polar opposites of one another.


    What is wrong with me? Why do I feel this way?’ she thought to herself in silent desperation.


    Where?