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Dear Corinthia,
Thank you for reminding me about the whole study aspect of our separation. I
did ask dad about this, and didn’t let him leave the room until he explained
everything. At least that’s what I said when the conversation began; he
never actually tried to escape. He doesn’t know what happened after you and
your mother left. They deliberately withheld information from him. The way
we’ve understood it thus far, it seemed like this twisted, nefarious
conspiracy with a cabal of evildoers who don’t care about ethics. Dad
painted it in a new light, even though I’m not sure he realized it. In
reality, it kind of sounds more like an amateur job. They weren’t very
well-organized, and they didn’t have much of a plan beyond
separate twins, study behavior. Imagine that in a caveman voice,
because the more he talked about his limited involvement, the dumber the
researchers sounded. After the atmosphere started to become toxic, the only
constant in my life was him. No one else was around for any meaningful
length of time. There was no one studying me, up close, or from a distance.
They couldn’t have. Society was breaking down, and had yet to rebuild itself
in a new way. Whoever was assigned to keep tabs on me would have either lost
me, or given up. Or, I suppose they could have died. Not everyone made it
through that dark period in our history. Dad says he doesn’t have names, and
I believe him on that part. I mean, you can look through your own databases
on Vacuus, but I can’t find a single study that has anything to do with
observing twins across two planets. I think you said it early on, we’re not
identical, and we’re two different genders, so right there, the study was
already bizarre. There are too many relevant variables to account for, so
unless it’s part of a larger case study, you’re not going to gain any
significant insights into how twins develop in terms of nature versus
nurture. My guess is that they realized as much before too long, and
eventually just gave up, leaving us to live our lives however we were going
to. I don’t think we’ll ever really know who was responsible for this, or
what they were thinking. Some information has been lost on my world, but I
do have access to quite a bit of it. A small group of brave people during
the toxic buildup dedicated their lives to preserving humanity’s knowledge.
Some regions have information that others don’t, but only due to oversights
and lapses, not a concerted effort to hide the truth from us. At least not
when it comes to this stuff. The people who poisoned the air in the first
place? Sure, they hid as much as they could from the people they were
hurting, and still do, but they really would not care what happened to the
two of us specifically. On the lighter side, I’m glad that you’ve worked
things out with this Bray fellow. Let me know if he gives you any more
trouble, though, and I’ll beat him up for you.
Enjoying my private life,
Condor
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