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He-- [While she opens her mouth to respond, it closes after a moment. He's already left her, anyway...
Gaze falling, she lifts her shoulders with a small shrug. Isn't that what she's always struggled with from the start? Even before his disappearance. She's never once felt his equal.
And that was without even realizing until months ago that he genuinely was her ancestor, and not her brother.]