Hug. Warm and comforting hug.

They should probably stop standing around in the doorway. Brandon clears his throat, gaze turned away from the four women standing just inside his sister's basement, "Maybe we should take this somewhere a bit more out of the way," he suggests. 

Yeah, yeah, Isteri will move them all upstairs to her room, which is... well, paid with the sort of money a blue can spend in an inter-dimensional inn.

It's a nice room, but they're all a little too distracted to appreciate the decor at the moment.

Does Zofin look up for talking? Lia is also willing to just get her settled on a soft surface with a blanket or something and either leave her be or hug her some more. She certainly would have appreciated hugs when she found out. 

Zofin is not really up for talking. She will accept hugs and quietly sob.

Lia will keep hugging her, then. 

...She kind of appreciates the excuse to hug someone, herself. Is she crying a bit too? Certainly not noticeably, if she is. 

Brandon notices the crying, and is a bit frustrated by the inability to do anything to show his displeasure to this Arel guy, and to whoever hurt the other woman, as well. He'll distract himself by offering any further explanations Patiri and Isteri request on the topic of Gemini. 

Patiri is not very focused, given the sudden reveal. Her questions are sort of insightful but also sort of distracted.

Isteri keeps to the practical questions on what sort of powers gemini have.

Brandon will answer questions, then. Bonuses can be roughly anything besides mental ones - no mind reading, no empathy, no memory editing, no psychic screams - and power-copying-or-altering-powers. Individual multiples tend to have bonuses which work well together, or at least don't get in each others' way. Brandon can manipulate his internal temperature and sprout fire and ice over his body, but no matter how hot or cold he gets Lyra can always touch him without hurting herself, and he can always touch her ice constructs without melting them. 

They will keep on asking. And Zofin will keep on sobbing.

(Maybe they will figure out a way to save their world from overpopulation without all this interpersonal drama getting on the way.)

(That'd be a trick.)

Time passes. The Gemini twins decide to stick around for a while, speaking to more people in the bar and letting a fair number of them through their door to acquire the ability to bear Gemini of their own. Lia splits her time between spending time with them and with Zofin, working on her magic, offering what suggestions she has when some portion of the group gathers to work on plans, and sitting in the bar watching for more opportunities for acquiring useful magic and other resources. 

Istevi, when pressed on the topic, says that he did not actively intend to have twins.

He did, however, wanted to have all advantages that they could get. Or at least that's what he claims.

Istevi will mostly avoid his now definitely exes. A mutual sentiment, only Patiri can stand stay in the room with him for any length of time, and the interactions are cold.

(Everyone eventually learns how to use crystal magic.)

One day a tall blond young woman in a lavish dress walks in Milliways and claps to herself when she sees the barroom instead of the location of her door. She walks in practically skipping.

The air around her stirs unnaturally for a closed room.

Liarae is one of the people in the bar when she comes in. She'd looked over when the door opened, and the stirring of the air had kept her eyes on new visitor. There's... something almost familiar about her? Something in the shape of the face, maybe. And the height. She shakes the thought away, waving the woman over to the table she's sharing with her current 'shift' partner. 

"Hello," she offers. "Welcome to Milliways. Have you been here before?" 

"I have! But I was younger and it stopped after I got my Prime powers. Hi! I am Farienne Dochenza."

"Liarae Aradin. Welcome back, then. I guess we can skip the explanation, if you've been here before. Prime powers? Is that what that wind was?"  

"Yes. Five people from specific five families in my country get it, each prime is associated with two forces - air and spirit in my case - and a personality archetype. And blessings," she waves at a set of three symbols on her collar, Lia might notice it's repeated elsewhere on her person, "which we draw to get a hint of the future. I got three surprises earlier this day and..." she waves at their surroundings.

"Interesting! Only five at once? What can the others do? And, can other people draw the blessings, or just the Primes?" 

"Only five at once, when a previous Prime dies, another manifests, always related but it goes by personality. The primes are: Elay for Air and Soul - that's me; Hunti for Wood and Bone; Sweela for Fire and Mind; Coru for Water and Blood; Torz for Earth and Flesh. Anyone with birth blessings can draw blessings, which are called that because they are three blessings draw to you a few days after your birth by someone - typically your father - but a Prime can do it whenever."

She looks closer at the blessings Farienne is wearing, "And you can do divination with them? Huh. Would you be willing to draw mine? Though I suppose that might need some set-up we don't have here." 

"Yes. And I can draw your birth blessings. Or of anyone that you want to." She pulls a fountain pen and a notebook out of her lavish-but-still-sensible-to-have-pockets dress. "We usually typically use coins with three of each blessing, but as long the draw process is random it works. Looking for a coin doesn't work. Using a limited set of coins makes it less accurate, which you can be used for more specific questions at the cost of less information. It's possible to use the information to change the possible future, but the blessings do take some of that into account." She is writing down all the blessings.

She watches this, nodding in response to the explanation. "You need a bowl or something to draw them from, right? Here-" She empties out the last of the chips from a large bowl on the table, setting them on a napkin, and then offers the bowl to Farienne. 

She nods. "It's hard to draw from a pile of anything without some of it spilling on the ground, but still works." While she works she will go explaining the possible meanings and interpretations of each blessing, and advises to generally think of drawing them as receiving a message by someone with a limited vocabulary. Also, even non-Prime but-still-blessed people are somewhat aligned to the five elemental categories, no one fits perfectly and there is a lot of subtly to it.

Then finally, she draws the blessings.

Resolve, Honour, Love. 

"Huh." Lia considers them for a long moment, before looking up at Farienne. "What do you think?" She asks.