Ilda's smile brightened all the more when Nita met her eyes.
"Just enough. Kind of hard to sleep with all that's going on." Plus she was more excitable than most girls. And anxious, because of what she'd done to get to where she was. "Are you one of the Twelve?"
It wasn't rude to ask, was it? The Selection didn't exactly reveal who the Twelve were. The priestesses just did some fancy show of picking out crystals; the matching ones in the possession of the lucky girls were supposed to glow, signaling their selection. Ilda didn't know for sure, since her crystal was rigged, guaranteeing her selection.
And while Carmela was sneaky and spunky enough to have thought of a way to cheat, odds were about even as to whether she had; some good things in life just seemed to happen to her.
Not that she didn't put any effort in, either. Carmela was self-driven in that way.
"I... take it you are, then?"
Nita had no set image of what the Twelve were supposed to look like; just how they were expected to act and benefit the people.
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"Er... I've been trying, yeah," she dodged, glancing more at the floor in an attempt to avoid awkward staring... which was itself awkward.
"Might sleep better once we land, though. What- what about you?"
She looked up properly then, gray eyes meeting Ilda's.
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"Just enough. Kind of hard to sleep with all that's going on." Plus she was more excitable than most girls. And anxious, because of what she'd done to get to where she was. "Are you one of the Twelve?"
It wasn't rude to ask, was it? The Selection didn't exactly reveal who the Twelve were. The priestesses just did some fancy show of picking out crystals; the matching ones in the possession of the lucky girls were supposed to glow, signaling their selection. Ilda didn't know for sure, since her crystal was rigged, guaranteeing her selection.
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"My friend's sister is."
And while Carmela was sneaky and spunky enough to have thought of a way to cheat, odds were about even as to whether she had; some good things in life just seemed to happen to her.
Not that she didn't put any effort in, either. Carmela was self-driven in that way.
"I... take it you are, then?"
Nita had no set image of what the Twelve were supposed to look like; just how they were expected to act and benefit the people.