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a stitch in time
twins, and also twins
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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. 

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"Yes?"

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"Oh--sorry, I was just sort of curious about the accents."

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"I have an odd little talent for accents and I use it to make it easier to tell us apart."

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"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. 

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"Huh. Those're—what's all that made of?"

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"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."

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"Oh, those little biochemical miracle factories! Nice!"

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"Oh, you've heard of them?"

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"They make the materials science people angry, which is always fun."

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She giggles. "We got them from the biology department, the university Dad works at doesn't have a Materials Science department."

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"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."

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"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."