She folds down onto the sand beside the other girl, sitting cross-legged and tucking her skirts with one absent hand. "I have one more brother, who isn't dead. But for a long time I thought he was, with all the others. And he thought I was. It was five years before he came back. But then ... he and his friends, after that, they were adventurers. They went out on dangerous missions, again and again. And ... it was harder, in some ways, not knowing if he'd be coming back."
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She folds down onto the sand beside the other girl, sitting cross-legged and tucking her skirts with one absent hand. "I have one more brother, who isn't dead. But for a long time I thought he was, with all the others. And he thought I was. It was five years before he came back. But then ... he and his friends, after that, they were adventurers. They went out on dangerous missions, again and again. And ... it was harder, in some ways, not knowing if he'd be coming back."