[She gets it and she doesn’t. Family, blood family, can’t just be considered away. But sometimes people don’t have parents, and sometimes they reject people they shouldn’t as though incompatibility runs through their veins. She gets that....
[What she doesn’t get, or pretend to understand, is why this infernal number game refuses to move with two quick, straightforward replies, one of which clearly hurts. Caitlyn averts her eyes, folds her arms loosely, as though this is somehow more uncomfortable for her. (It’s almost certainly not.)]
Jayce Talis. An inventor my family sponsored. I grew up knowing him. And Vi, my—
Someone else I love.
[Differently. Very differently. But;] For the purposes of this answer, [glaring somewhere off, as though the mystery numbers are somewhere visible], that should be sufficient.
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[She gets it and she doesn’t. Family, blood family, can’t just be considered away. But sometimes people don’t have parents, and sometimes they reject people they shouldn’t as though incompatibility runs through their veins. She gets that....
[What she doesn’t get, or pretend to understand, is why this infernal number game refuses to move with two quick, straightforward replies, one of which clearly hurts. Caitlyn averts her eyes, folds her arms loosely, as though this is somehow more uncomfortable for her. (It’s almost certainly not.)]
Jayce Talis. An inventor my family sponsored. I grew up knowing him. And Vi, my—
Someone else I love.
[Differently. Very differently. But;] For the purposes of this answer, [glaring somewhere off, as though the mystery numbers are somewhere visible], that should be sufficient.
[Are they?]