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[wythersake]

WHO: Isaac + Joselyn, Betrys, others
WHAT: Thread catchall
WHEN: Not in a jungle
WHERE: Not in a jungle
NOTES: Editing these in as I go. HMU if you want a starter.

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[obdurata]

It would be difficult to express in so many words just how much,

“I don't remember the rest of our family,” is what she says, eventually. “Not very well, you know. Anecdotes. Moments. The house where we lived, but not the street it was on. I only really thought of being with my sister.”

For a long time after, too, for the Smythes to slip so. She thinks of them now, sometimes, but mostly in how peculiar it is how easy it was to let go—a pang of something that she doesn't quite identify as guilt. That doesn't quite feel like guilt, just an oddness. Like a gap in her teeth where she presses her tongue sometimes to feel its shape.

[wythersake]

It would be unkind to ask whether the sister thought of her.

"I suppose," He ventures, and it's uncertain territory. Traipsed down some blind turn — "If you think of something enough, you begin to think less of it."

"Only, no. I don't mean it like that. Enough trees make a forest," Condense: A filtered pattern. "But we only recognize a few."

"Landmarks."