Day 23 - Platonic

"It's tough, working with your brother, huh?"

Gaignun startled, just a touch, uncrossing eyr right leg from on top of eyr left and leaning up from the wall. Mary was like that - quick to ask incisive questions, and blunt with her wording, but always caring and willing to step back if she saw that she'd been too much.

Of course, the Kukai siblings didn't bear witness to even half of what went between the Godwin sisters. There was no true metric by which to judge what was them, and what was their reservation for the rest of the Foundation, and the world at large.

All this, Gaignun mulled over in the span of a few moments as it made physical acknowledgement of Mary's question. It just so happened to be pertinent.

"No tougher than working with you and Shelley," they said levelly. "In a quantitative sense, anyway. What is made easier by our preexisting bond may also be made more difficult."

In other words: the complication of the bond between any siblings, URTVs or not - Designer, or not. How rare it was to find true unburdened communication. Nigh impossible. The good simply had to be taken with the bad.

"May?" Shelley inquired, a soft voice but just as strong a presence - to those, like Gaignun, who paid attention. It wasn't often that any others were necessarily forced to do so. "You speak in hypotheticals, Gaignun. Why?"

Gaignun smiled. "They're the easiest. They have no care for real details. They can change, from day to day."

Now that she'd seen this vital point to seize upon, Mary's bluntness persisted. "You might even say hypotheticals have no regrets. But I think they're a little bit of the opposite - the inverse, if you will. And you don't need to regret anything, with us."