"I like to think he'd have stayed like that, when he got older," Patience said, smiling too. "It's silly, you're probably going to laugh at me, but I keep thinking about what it would be like if he'd lived and it was the three of us here."
Maybe, if Aldous Jr. was still alive, she and Chastity wouldn't have grown quite so far apart. Even his memory was making her feel closer to her twin than she had in a while. Patience was quiet for a moment. "Maybe it would be both of us worrying about what happened to him on the full."
And that image made her understand how Chastity must feel about her wanting to run around, have more of a free reign on the full moon. Except that Patience was old enough to look after herself - yes, she'd been bitten by a wolf because she had hesitated too long to Apparate away, but she had gotten herself out of there alive. Patience could handle things like that happening to her, and she would continue to survive and move on. Patience turned her head to look at her sister for a moment, thinking that maybe if Chastity could understand that, she wouldn't worry so much.