Suzie's lips shrank, and she quickly set them back into the coffee for a long, steady moment as she collected herself.
"All I know is, my mum remarried," she said with a small chuckle, "Way she tells it, Jojo came into her life, then he wasn't there, so she moved on and found Farrokh. Never gave it much thought, myself...just our lot for better or for worse."
And from all indications, she was lucky it was so...lacking in colour.
"...hadn't heard a peep 'til I got sick, but suppose that's the thing that drew the lot of us here, at any rate, and we should be so fortunate we got here," she sighed, studying her reflection in the glossy, black surface of her cup.
"...do you think we'll find them? Any other siblings, I mean? Hironobu-san called the meeting, but that doesn't mean this...all this...has been concluded, so there could still be any number of distant relations on the way...oh, but when I think of what happened with poor Lucy and the OSS..."