"I've never entirely trusted Jupiter, I've never been entirely sure that her ends and mine coincide. This time however, the vision she sent me was appropriate and helpful; so I packed my things and went to visit the family in Juche." -- The diaries of Nellens Anila Kira, Bureau of Destiny.
Vasily wondered how the family managed to get away with the insult of seating him next to someone who was both a senior member of the House and a visitor from the Heptagram, but she didn't seem to mind. She had introduced herself as Nellens Anila Kira, an expert in translation carrying on her mother's work. Some of the books in the library had been translated by Nellens Anila, and hers was a name he knew from family lore, so he had a certain amount he could talk to her about.
She told him about her childhood, and her siblings, and then about the plague that carried off her mother, and broke her father's heart, and caused her to flee to the Heptagram and remain there until the impact of the memories had faded. She was visiting to deal with a few questions about an inheritence, apparantly, although Vasily was unsure whose inheritence she was refering to.
Vasily retired that evening unsure as ever about his life. Despite his best wishes he had stubbonly failed to Exalt, and everyone was beginning to accept this as his lot in life. He mused on the unfairness of this for a while, so he was still awake when he heard one of the windows being broken.
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