Wait, what, those two guys are identical but have different accents? What? That's bizarre.
She isn't trying to make a thing of it, or even eavesdrop, but she's definitely rooted in place with confusion long enough for a particularly observant person to notice.
"I have an odd little talent for accents and I use it to make it easier to tell us apart."
"I guess that makes sense for identicals! Me'n Wilbur have to take steps to make it easier to tell us together." She gestures at their matching outfits.
"Spidersilk! When we realized Wilbur's affinity was thread Mum and Dad managed to get us a breeding pair of Darwin's Bark Spiders for familiars."
"They make the materials science people angry, which is always fun."
She giggles. "We got them from the biology department, the university Dad works at doesn't have a Materials Science department."
"My dad was a mundane engineer, ran a big company, I grew up around all kindsa neat shit and people tearing their hair out trying to replicate neat shit some random bug is doing that we can't."
"Personally, I like co-opting the bug. Our dad's a linguistics professor, I keep telling people how many languages I speak and then they swear at me."
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