"Easy is boring," she says, her tone light. "Easy wouldn't be worth chasing after."

And if he is her brother, then he would be worth the struggle. He would be worth the fight through her mind, the forging of bonds the..everything. He would be worth it.

And maybe she'll have to remind herself of that sometimes, maybe she'll have to come to him or to some of hte people they both know and have hem tell her again, but she will.