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[eldesthatter]

What is all this? These pictures in my book. They're awful. People are dying. Suffering. Surely this can't all be real. So many people hurting like this...

Please tell me it isn't true. That it is some awful illusion. It must be.

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[makewayforroze]

That's why we help one another.

[eldesthatter]

I don't see how someone could help in cases like this.

[makewayforroze]

We can offer a place to stay, so your friend's won't notice something is weird, at least.

[eldesthatter]

So I am to be a burden to a stranger instead?

[makewayforroze]

No, not a burden.

[eldesthatter]

It would be a burden. I am sure of it.

[makewayforroze]

Most of us become friends. Why would it be a burden?

[eldesthatter]

I am the eldest of three. It is the nature of such things.

[makewayforroze]

You've had friends over before, haven't you?

[eldesthatter]

My family has had guests before. The matter is not the same.

[makewayforroze]

A friend is a friend, no matter where they're from.

[eldesthatter]

The problem is not the friend. The problem is myself.

[makewayforroze]

What do you mean?

[eldesthatter]

As I said, I am the eldest of three.

Where I am from that means bad fortune.

[makewayforroze]

Why would you birth order change your luck? I'm sure it meant you had a lot of responsibility growing up but that isn't bad luck.

[eldesthatter]

Perhaps not where you are from. It is in Ingary.

[makewayforroze]

Then it's true? You really have been cursed with bad luck?

[eldesthatter]

I have not tempted fate in a way in which it would be noticeable.

[makewayforroze]

So you're saying it's true, even though you've never seen it. It's good to have faith in some things but someone else's curse doesn't have to be one of those things.

[eldesthatter]

It is simply the way of things. I am not bitter about it. I am glad for the fortunes my sisters will seek someday.

[makewayforroze]

It's good to care so much for your family, I just worry you're not thinking enough for yourself.

[eldesthatter]

I have my family and our shop. I couldn't ask for more.

[makewayforroze]

Oh? What kind of shop do you own?

[eldesthatter]

A hat shop.

[makewayforroze]

Do you make them?