To be so readily accepted was both a puzzle and a relief. But given their surroundings, perhaps meeting one's dead brother, and one's unborn sister a woman grown, were not quite so strange.

There was so much she wanted to say, so much she wanted to ask, but so much of it was sad that she couldn't. Not just yet. "Brother." Though she smiled, tears gathered in her eyes as she stepped closer and held out her hand. "I--it is--it is so wonderful to meet you. I have wanted to for such a long, long time."