... the Ninth stopped having children after Harrow?

[odd. alarming, really. how could they possibly survive otherwise?]

They both offer their pressures and their scars. Worse still when one envies the other, needless bitterness against the wrong source. [viktor sighs, thinking a little of jayce despite himself. at least they never fought over such things. haha.

he offers the ghost of a smile back.] I wonder if this was thematic, in a sense. About the same age, about certain lonelinesses and singular, old friends.