Norms

[lathany]

"Mummy, why did you and uncle chrestomancy play¹ together when you were little?"

"Because uncle chrestomancy is my brother."

"Oh. Were you twins?"

"No."

"Why weren't you twins?"

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¹ Play included occasionally beating the **** out of each other. But I didn't mention that bit.

Comments

[secondhand-rick.livejournal.com]

You didn't answer the question... why weren't you twins?

[lathany.livejournal.com]

I gave the rather limp response "because we weren't born at the same time." Eventually I'll get around to explaining about the two egg thing, just not yet.

[secondhand-rick.livejournal.com]

Well, the answer's good, it just doesn't go into the mechanics of not being born at the same time, which is piffling detail.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_kent/]

But I didn't mention that bit.

Don't worry, they'll work that bit out for themselves.

[lathany.livejournal.com]

It's only a matter of time before I get:

"Mummy, did uncle chrestomancy shove you like Ryan shoves me?"

[jakemalone.livejournal.com]

Thats sooo cute!

[sumbitch.livejournal.com]

Bwahahaha.

Later on you can explain how, due to a common, tragic birth accident, siblings are often born years apart.