He's going to kill them they have to get away--
she commands it--
and then they are away and it occurs to her that she never specified where to. She slowly unclenches her arms from their death grip around her sister and looks around.
He's going to kill them they have to get away--
she commands it--
and then they are away and it occurs to her that she never specified where to. She slowly unclenches her arms from their death grip around her sister and looks around.
"Well... twins?" shrugs the student. "Anyway welcome to Amenta, I'm sure you get begged for planets all the time but, that..."
"You're welcome!"
And then they can go find the park where Odette is hanging out in a tree. Fortunately it is within walking distance. Illia has taken a train and it is not an experience she is eager to repeat.
She gets double-takes but no one else identifies her as the green local instance of her face.
"As far as we can tell I am you--my name's Ada and I have a twin sister named Amila who looks exactly like Illia and a geneticist parent and a general sense of social malcontent. Which is, alas, harder to leverage than it need be because everyone expects frivolous social malcontentment from silly green university students and correspondingly takes it less seriously."
"I mean leaving aside the fact that I apparently have an alien duplicate I kind of would have expected your hair to be a darker shade."
She bursts out giggling. "It naturally comes in darker! But it's not green, so I bleach and dye it."