"Is it. Did you see pictures?"

"Not really, but it was bad enough to inspire an impassioned speech by her."

"I'll brace myself if I ever meet her brother."

She giggles.

"How's work been?"

"Not the most intellectually fulfilling thing ever, but I can deal. I focus on magic a lot, there, so not completely useless either."

"Oh, good, things where you can multitask on magic are handy."

"It mostly consists in making sure the books are in their right places and helping people find books and using the system, and there's a lot of down time. Relatively to how much there could be, anyway."

Nod nod.

"How about you? What've you been up to?"

"Classes, homework, progress on the eidetic memory - that's going to make classes a lot easier once it's all finished, it's already helping a lot."

"How far along is it? Or, rather, what's your ETA?"

"I think I'll put it down as good enough and pick up precog in four, five months at my current rate."

She nods.

"And it'll probably get passively better from there by practice effects, since I'll be remembering things all the time."

"Yeah. Psionics is really cool, if it weren't for the gender and immortality things I'd probably have wanted that instead."

"I'm glad I'm a psion."

"I'm glad I'm a mage and you're a psion."

"It's very convenient."

"It's like we're made for each other," she giggles.

"My lovely illegal science experiment."

"I don't know why I have to be the illegal science experiment. What if you are?"

"Why would they give an illegal science experiment a twin?"

"The twin was clearly an experimental accident due to uncontrolled tissue growth."

"Then why aren't we identical?"