#siblings!!!!!!!

206 | Moira vs. Town Council

she's been sat at one of the tables in the library. feet dangling off the edge of the chair and swinging back and forth gently. head lazily rested on one hand, the other keeps flipping through pages of a book on old exorcisms. plate is put down in front of her and brown eyes peek up. first at the toast that's overflowing with cheese, then at her brother just as he's leaning down to press a soft kiss to the top of her head. smile spreads, knowing and touched and increasingly more hungry now that the smell is hitting her. " sit with me. " the invitation follows, saying what they both know she actually means: i love you too, benny.

even in the sea of matching red blazers, sejanus is not difficult to spot. weaving through fellow students (excuse me-ing and apologizing the whole way), september finally catches up to her newly elusive sibling near the top of the grand steps leading to the academy's main building. " sejanus ! " small hand clamps down on his shoulder gently before inhaling and exhaling deeply to catch her breath, " when i came down for breakfast this morning, ma said you'd already left. ——- did professor sickle make you come in early? " curious eyes melt into a look of sudden recognition. " oh ! " a neatly folded brown paper bag drooping from the weight of a bona fide ma plinth lunch is presented to him, " you forgot your lunch. "