"Yes, they should. Sadly, I've gotten very used to not having one." There was that name again, Jeremiah Radley. That old woman on the boards had asked her if she knew a Jeremiah Radley just an hour or so ago, and she did, but it couldn't be the same one, could it? And now Charlotte knew one too, he couldn't be the same man, could he? No, that was crazy. Then again, Briar was hardly in a position to ever judge someone else's crazy.
Tapping the side of her mug with her fingernails, Briar considered these thoughts before she spoke again, silently observing the way Charlotte had already seemed to relax. She'd obviously needed to talk to someone for awhile, it made both Briar and Rose feel guilty to be so content in their own lives to not have made any real effort to find her and Snow. "I'm very sorry about your brother, and yes I did know about him and heard about his death. I wasn't involved in the reincarnate war at all but I was still sad to hear of it when it happened. I'm sorry we weren't here for that."
Pausing to take another sip and relishing in the way it burned down her throat, Briar let the rest sink in. The second member in her family to be killed by CORE? Briar had always stayed out of the reincarnate war because she hadn't trusted either side not to be her undoing, both seemed so radical, so... unnecessary. But CORE especially, CORE had shown its true colors so early on, and the last thing Briar had wanted was to get caught in the cross fires of another bloody war. If it wasn't for the Jeremiah she knew... She cleared her throat, looking at Charlotte curiously.
"I'm afraid I haven't kept up with much that the Agency has done in the last, god, I don't even know how long. But sorry, Jeremiah Radley? This is a little strange for me, you're the second person today to ask me if I knew him. I knew a Jeremiah Radley, but that was back in World War One, until now I was assuming that he was dead. Did your Jeremiah ever fight in the wars?"