A deep breath. This is easier without eye contact. "When Gideon Nav arrived on the Ninth, she was the two hundred and first child between infancy and fifteen."
"By the end of her first year she was the only one still alive."
"It was not her fault," she adds quickly. "But her survival was. Unexpected. Soon after, I was born. We grew up the last and only children of the Ninth."
"Her survival then was as unexpected as her recovery today," she says slowly. "As unexpected as finding her name in a letter ten thousand years old. It may all be coincidences. But if so, coincidences seem to congregate around my cavalier."
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2020-09-01 04:57 pm (UTC)"By the end of her first year she was the only one still alive."
"It was not her fault," she adds quickly. "But her survival was. Unexpected. Soon after, I was born. We grew up the last and only children of the Ninth."
"Her survival then was as unexpected as her recovery today," she says slowly. "As unexpected as finding her name in a letter ten thousand years old. It may all be coincidences. But if so, coincidences seem to congregate around my cavalier."