Re: Jack/Leena
That's a bit like me and my brother. Although 'elsewhere' is suitably ambiguous. We were both in boarding schools, although separate ones. I was older, and it feels like we never actually knew each other by the time he was about five. I think he might be like you, in need of getting to know on his own terms.
Claire sounds like she's special. Claires are rare, aren't they? People rather like lumping on demands.
Mallory, you're well-equipped for expeditions. I don't have ties, or I didn't think I did. Perhaps I do, but really, it's affordability and coming back to write about it. I don't think I could just experience it, I have to find a way of putting it down so anyone else can experience it with me. What do you grow?
All right. Cards on the table, I'll probably remember you more tomorrow than today. I'm growing up, I mean, magically. I'm supposed to be about thirty seven, but I'm not right now. And I don't have all the memories I'm meant to. They're reversing, so it's not like you at all but I can sympathize a little, I think.
I'm not sure I liked Lord of the Rings enough to try it in fluff, it was so long, and very very boring, all those names.