Antigone cast a look towards her, just briefly, before turning her face fowards once more. "They're born," she said after a moment. "Then they're children for a very long time and sometimes you can be an aunt-" although that was a very sore topic, she hadn't seen Ismene's children for a year "-or something like an aunt, when they're little. And the years pass and you can't see them because they remember your face, and when they die you bury them."