December FamMeet

[cleavethetides]

Who: The Grove
What: Town Hall
When: Mid-Late December
Where: Inn Lobby
Warnings: Child death mentions, torture, body horror all probably will be brought up.

[ In the morning, Irene will trek around the Grove to knock on doors and let everyone know she's setting up a information sharing meeting in the Inn's lobby. She figures there would be best, considering the new fireplace (thread pending on my behalf) set up and the fact it's about as safe as they're going to get.

Irene also lets everyone know that any fights and any blatant drama starters will be met with punishment. She doesn't elaborate on this further. Zahliya is invited. Irene tells Moder if she wants to sit by the door to listen, she can. She does not invite the merchant siblings, however - though she'll make no objections if someone else does.

She seems to be writing things down in their shared journals this meeting so people can reference this later. ]

Comments

[amhran]

[ Caoimhe takes a moment to draw that into her mind, regarding everything she knew growing up as well. For elven people who barely had children, siblings were regarded as those who took the time to teach their younger generations. Closely knit communities, where one simply decided whether or not they were sister and brother. Or in the rare chance that two children were born around the same time, they were treated as siblings.

Siblings to her and her people did not necessarily mean a blood bond - but a strong bond nonetheless. It was not a strange notion, nor peculiar - but it did feel odd.

Odd to feel that she always felt so close to Mizuki, felt as if they were wholly bonded more deeply.

Almost as if... In that moment, everything made sense to her. ]

I wonder then, [ A warm smile, leaning into Mizuki further. ] if that is why. This whole time, it always felt as if you were home, whenever I am beside you.

[mooninthewater]

[ In Mizuki's hometown, it was much the same, but his memories of growing up there… hurt. Instead, he draws inference from his time growing up in the cult church. And anything that could be "siblings" there was… questionable. He supposes Highmore counts as his sister, maybe. Everyone else, though…? The seaborn that all succumbed to the call? We Many? They're less "siblings" and more just… part of him.

Which is all the more reason he's excited about this revelation. ]

Maybe!! Maybe… we were supposed to end up in a world together, but… when that didn't happen, it found a way to connect us, anyway?

[amhran]

Hehe... Yes, I suppose that is right. [ She accepts it, because there is more than enough room in her heart for more family. Especially when family to her ultimately meant everything. ] Even if we are disconnected ever again, I know in my heart I will remember. I will not let myself forget you. I will always long to find you, even in my memories. You are a wonderful friend Mizuki... It is only - ah, yes... [ Thinking as if the right way to say this is - ] Only an honor, to even know here we were as siblings.