10 ways siblings can suck the life out of you

She could tell her brother was in a mood, but wasn't he always? He remarked that no one had forced her to follow him, but that was only half true. "Oh, brother mine. You should know better than to trust me alone and unsupervised. I figured it'd be best to stick close." She sent him a wink and then shimmied her shoulders, casting off the last few drops of water from her speckled ruff. She could have sat there and bantered the day away, but Ig had to go and make things serious again. He mentioned finally getting into the details of his and her resulting exile, which was admittedly a conversation she had been lowkey trying to avoid. From what she'd picked up so far it had been a grievous betrayal, and she knew dredging the story back up would cause her brother pain, even if he half-heartedly joked to the contrary. Sephira sighed and settled in. "I'll listen if you want to tell it," she replied, uncharacteristically sober. She knew this was going to majorly suck, but denial only worked for so long.