Pel sees those pictures and her heart breaks a little. All this time she has tried to put Clan Ashara behind her, and her fledgling relationship with Beleth has suffered for it. Beleth surrounds herself with it, yearns for a twin left behind. She looks up at Beleth, hands folded on her lap.

"A great many things have changed in our lives in the last year. Worldviews are the least of them. I expect the only thing in your world that hasn't changed is your place in it. The same cannot be said for the rest of us. But in all the upheaval, I don't think I have ever asked you how you felt about that. Ir abelas, lethallan. How do you feel?"

Under the conversational phrasing, Pel appears very solemn indeed. Inscrutable, even. It is clear the question is not at all casual, though neither is it judgmental. It is done with the same efficiency as a doctor who tests a temperature. Her attention is fully on Beleth; indeed, the full attention of Pel as she seldom gives, normally having some task in her hands during conversation.