Nyla sighed heavily. "I'm not sure how I'll survive having another one around. My sisters-in-law have been a lot of help but they have their own children to contend with. One of them has been vomiting all day so the children were stuck with me."
She realized she had complained to someone she didn't even properly know and hastily apologized. "Forgive me, I don't quite feel myself these days. How do you know Katie? I have never seen you around before and I know everyone in this town."
Abby had already decided that she would have to call herself a cousin instead of a sister because they couldn't explain the truth to everybody. Catherine du Pont was fairly well-known.
"We're cousins and grew up like sisters. My parents moved to Shibatsu for a while as diplomats but after they died I decided to come here. Annalaias is much more restrictive to women so I came to Katie instead of going to the du Ponts," she improvised.
