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[wizard_redfive]

Six more days until I'm the same age as my sister.

...Now that's weird to say.

[Dairine turns from her personal calender to address the journal properly.]

Does anyone else have older brothers or sisters back home? If you pass their age in Paradisa, would you still consider them older than you?

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[toobravehearted]

How old is your sister?

As for your question, yes. No. It all depends, I suppose, or... No. Definitely yes.

[A pause.] It's rather complicated, actually.

[wizard_redfive]

Fifteen. At least, she was the last time I saw her. [Though she soon would be turning sixteen after spring break.]

So I gather. You lost me.

[toobravehearted]

I see. You're technically, what? Twelve? Thirteen? Do you feel almost fifteen? [Not that he can really comprehend that difference anymore, but he has a good imagination.]

Yes, well. I was young once and it was easier to work out when I was older.

[wizard_redfive]

I was thirteen when I arrived here. [Why does everyone guess twelve? She doesn't look that young. Yes, she does.] Depends. Sometimes I feel much older than that.

Mind simplifying it down for us younger folks then?

Voice

[hasmommyissues]

Alas I am an only child.

Sad is itn't it?

Forever

[wizard_redfive]

Depends on your point of view. Being an old child might seem lonelier, but you get to have your parents' undivided attention.

Plus, siblings can be a pain in the butt.

[hasmommyissues]

A parents undivided attention can also be a curse. It is...added pressure for a child to conform to a father or a mothers ideology.

I get a hint that you are speaking from experience when you call them that.

[wizard_redfive]

Maybe, but that depends more on the parents than whether someone has siblings, I think. They can be pushy or doting on both kids too. It's best to ignore that kind of rubbish, anyway. No one has to conform to what their parent's believe in.

[She is, of course, assuming that ideology here means religion. Or at least something close to it.]

No duh? Everyone with a sibling has experienced them being annoying before.

[delincuente]

I guess I've been older than my big brother for a couple of years, now. Feels pretty weird. But I mean, if he ever showed up he'd still me my big brother. I'd feel older than him, but that wouldn't change.

[wizard_redfive]

That would feel pretty weird. Imagine if he came here and tried to boss you around though. Would you react the same way you would back home?

[delincuente]

Nah. I was always the one bossing him around.

[wizard_redfive]

[Dairine laughs.]

Good. Someone's gotta do it.

[Written]

[ofthursday]

I have many older siblings, but it would take a great deal of time to surpass them in age.

[Dictated]

[wizard_redfive]

They're that old?

[Written forever!]

[ofthursday]

They are far older than me, at least.

Dictated forever!

[wizard_redfive]

And how old are you?

[inafadingcrown]

[...yeah, she's going to skip over the question about siblings. The last thing that Dair needs to hear is someone talking about three dead older brothers.]

Am I to understand, then, that your begetting day- [a pause and then a correction]- your birthday approaches?

[wizard_redfive]

Yes, it's on October 20.

Er... My birthday, that is. [Not so sure about that... other day.]

[inafadingcrown]

[Just chalk it up to a weird elf thing, Dair. You'll be happier that way.] Do you intend to mark it?

[lucre]

[ She is as old as Cesare was when he became Cardinal now. ]

Does the order truly matter?

[wizard_redfive]

Probably not. She'd still be my sister, no matter what age we were.

But it could be awkward if she ever showed up.

[lucre]

I have always thought of him as an equal.

You are the younger of the two?

[bezazzled]

Meh, I've always been older than my twin brother. I guess thinking about being more than five minutes older than him is kind of weird. I don't think it really counts, because when you leave here you just to back to however old you were before.

[wizard_redfive]

What if he arrived here? Would that change anything?

[bezazzled]

Weeeeell, I dunno. I mean, it's not like we actually grow here. We just grow in our minds. Besides, age is just a number. I would probably only gloat about it for maybe a month, two months top.