Two Truths and Lie Sitting on a Pier

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Celeste nodded. It made sense. She didn't and couldn't know all Shale's friend's friends. Even if he had worked for Zoraida, her niece rarely gossiped about her employees and so didn't know that much about Jude.

"Alright, all my children have different diets, all my children have been officially adopted, none of my children were born on the island."
 

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Well, alright. He knew Shale - he didn't know the other two. He knew that Shale was born off-island, and that he had a strange diet. He also knew he was officially adopted.

Which left nothing to go on.

So he had to assume law of averages. Most people on the island--an overwhelming majority--weren't born there. Jude could think of only a handful of people who had been born there. More importantly, if they were born there, they were likely to have family on the island.

So, diet or adoption.

Jude considered.

On one hand, diet seemed to stick out. He knew how strange Shale's was, so maybe that was intended to bait him? Or maybe it wasn't trying to bait him. Adoption, then - adoption...

Shale's adoption had only gone through recently, so maybe she'd done them all at once? Or...

He was mentally tripping over himself, and Jude paused, reaching up to pinch at the bridge of his nose.

"Sorry," he said. "I think I'm overthinking things. I'm going to just... go with my gut. I think all your children being adoption is the lie - because I think Shale was only adopted recently?"
 

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"Yes, that's right. Although, Ebviony is adopted too. It´s Azure that still undecided," she confessed. She really hoped the young werewolf would like to be part of the family, but she knew that couldn´t be forced.

"I think that means you have won," she said with a warm smile.
 

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Jude hadn't met either Azure nor Ebviony at that point, but he made a mental note of the names just in case they arrived in the community center at the same time as him. He couldn't help but feel that it would have been a more satisfying victory if he'd actually puzzled it out, rather than just guessing, but... a win was a win.

"It was a good game," Jude said, sticking his hand out for a shake.

"You're finished?" Wolfgang asked, raising a slim eyebrow and completely ignoring Dimitri as he did so. "Then we should be going."
 

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"It most certainly was," Celeste agreed as she accepted his handshake and shook his hand warmly. "I guess I will see you in class on Thursday," she said pretty sure he was in her Thursday morning classes.

"Have some manners." Dimitri said coolly as he narrowed his gaze at Wolfgang. "Let them finish their goodbyes."
 

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"Their goodbyes are over," Wolfgang pointed out, as if they hadn't finished after Dimitri had said his piece. "And one doesn't need to wait for goodbyes before deciding they should be going. If they did, they'd never leave."

Jude was having a harder time ignoring Dimitri and Wolfgang snapping at each other than he cared to admit, so he simply gave her a quick nod.

"I'll see you then," Jude confirmed. "And thanks again for the match."

He gave her a quick nod and then turned on his heel, heading back up towards the city.
 
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