(Kealen)
They arrived on a Thursday, which was becoming a pattern.
Kiara had been born on a stormy night. The twins arrived on a quiet Thursday afternoon in early spring, when the light was doing the long, amber thing it did when the season was changing and the east garden was starting to show color again after the winter.
No storm this time.
Just Mira, and Lara, and Theron beside me the whole way through, and then two sounds instead of one.
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It went faster than Kiara's birth. Mira had said that was typical for subsequent pregnancies, and she was right, though faster still meant everything it meant. Theron held my hand through all of it and didn't say things people said when they didn't know what to say. He just stayed present, which was the thing he was best at.
The first one ca
