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[earlofphantoms]

{ Private to Undertaker. }

I've made tea with some passable additions. Will you join me? { He is getting better in the kitchen! Practice makes perfect. } There is much we need to discuss and I prefer to do so in person if you are amenable?

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{ Private to CielAstre. }

I have missed your face. Will you spend some time with your father? I think it might do us both good.

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{ Vincent is looking a little strained; he is definitely less confident than usual. }

What does one do to stave off a feeling of foreboding? I tell myself I am being overdramatic { no, really? } but am I? What if I have developed a talent for prescience?

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[sweetlies]

I think Aunt An was the only person who saw a lot of mother in me. Everyone else says I take after you. Even the Queen.

[That's unfair!] I might have answered a fraction of a second sooner though.

[earlofphantoms]

You have her eyes and her personality. The rest is undeniably me.

{ But how much is an act? }

Only a fraction? I must be important indeed!

[sweetlies]

True but that's only because her eyes were blue.

[Hard to say anymore, when he's been living that act for four years.]

Did you doubt that?

[earlofphantoms]

The shape is the same too. { And that makes you adorable. }

I have a lot of doubts.

[sweetlies]

Are they? I never noticed. Not much survive the fire to compare.

[Photo's, he means.]

I don't see why you should.

[earlofphantoms]

All you need do is look in a mirror. The shape should remain the same as you get older. I think you will be exceptionally handsome.

You think my time is done, but that isn't how I see it.

[sweetlies]

I have no photos to compare anymore, unfortunately. [Dad please]

Back home, perhaps. We don't have to go back. And just because I lost you hasn't diminished my feelings for my family.

[earlofphantoms]

I'm sorry. I would find you some somehow, but I can't do that here.

{ He hasn't accepted his death and he never will. }

I'm glad. You're so strong. Don't let yourself become bitter.