 Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?
”I have two. I only had one but there’s a new one apparently. My family is big. There are my brothers, and Father, and Megan Olivia Matthews, and then there’s Dustin and Alex.” And the rest of the staff. That was a kinda big family. But... it was her entire family. She had no extended family at all. She explained all of this with a flat voice. It wasn’t a secret, she just didn’t like to talk about them.
The standard for good news has become so low,Ash thought. If I told people I went one day without something awful happening, they’d throw a party for me. She stared into Violet’s eyes, in a way that was probably unsettling somehow. “That’s good. You have uncles?” And she cared about them? That was interesting. Ash didn’t have any uncles, but then again she didn’t need any. So it all worked out perfectly. |