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[hold_infinity]

"...I don't know. If Ethan is what soulmates are like, I don't think I could've imagined it at all."

[pandion]

"Huh. Maybe we'll all get surprised."

[hold_infinity]

"Maybe," she agrees.

[pandion]

"Or maybe it's just you and Ethan and the rest of us will have to do without."

[hold_infinity]

"Aww."

[pandion]

"I dunno, should I want my very own equivalent of Ethan?"

[hold_infinity]

"...I'm really not sure," says Robin. "Hopefully yours would be nicer."

[pandion]

"Did I ever tell you - or I dunno, did anybody else tell you - that like months ago I had this itty bitty crush on him? It was the accent. I stopped, though."

[hold_infinity]

"Sounds familiar. Yeah - I like my Ethan fine, but I wouldn't be keen to meet anyone else's."

[pandion]

"Well," says Andi thoughtfully, "I don't think I could be soulmates with anybody who couldn't get along nicely with Bella."

[hold_infinity]

"There is that. I don't come with a twin."

[pandion]

"So my soulmate possibilities are conveniently, like - cinched up into a small space of agreeable soulmates."

[hold_infinity]

Robin giggles. "Or at least more agreeable than Ethan. I don't know, he gets along with Trouble all right. But Trouble is pretty agreeable himself once he takes a liking to somebody,"

[pandion]

"Agreeable. Eenh... I dunno, the word fits basically, but I wouldn't have picked it out of the dictionary. He's friendly I think I'd say."

[hold_infinity]

"Yeah, friendly's better."

[pandion]

"Trouble has too much going on to be agreeable," elaborates Andi, "agreeable people are nice but they aren't too complicated."

[hold_infinity]

"Yeah. Trouble's plenty complicated," she agrees.

[pandion]

"I used to not be complicated. I might be getting more complicated. I mean, I can turn into animals, that's big right there."

[hold_infinity]

Robin laughs. "Does that mean we're all complicated?"

[pandion]

"I guess? Aren't we?"

[hold_infinity]

"I don't know. When the point of comparison is Trouble, no, I don't think so. When the point of comparison is some person who doesn't believe in aliens, then maybe."

[pandion]

"Yeah, one of those. Man, remember not believing in aliens?"

[hold_infinity]

"Yeah," she sighs.

[pandion]

"It feels like it was longer ago than it was."

[hold_infinity]

"I know what you mean."