"Almost a year now." Her feet shuffled on the textured concrete, a hushed sort of whisper marking her footfalls as she moved to the pool's edge. There she lowered herself to sit, easing her pale feet into the water. She opened her mouth as if to speak, briefly considering mentioning her sister having moved in as well, but a niggling hesitation, its origins unknown, stayed her tongue. Her voice was light, dreamy when she spoke again, her words interrupted now and then by the faint splashing of her feet. "Sometimes it feels like I've always been here."