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Although Shinji is eager for Shiori to meet his family, he is strangely evasive about the details of his home life. He tells her that his family is "close" and that they have a unique way of doing things. Shiori assumes this means they are traditional or perhaps a bit snobbish.

Weeks widened into months. I learned how to read the seams of people: how to tell when Tomas tried to hide a gift he’d scavenged for someone, the way Priestess smoothed her lipstick in private like a priest reciting a secret liturgy. I learned to listen for the particular cadence that meant someone had robbed the wrong men and would soon be in trouble with the right ones.

“You tell things true,” Mei said. “You put edges on blurred memories.”