"Are you hoping for cat eyes too, now?" Mary teases her daughter, half amused and half hoping that she's not jinxing something here. Life is complicated enough, Nel really doesn't need strange body parts (her hair is...

...strange enough...) Mary falls quiet and frowns before reaching up to gently run a hand over Nel's intense mass of hair. It had always been a bit of a mystery to them how fast it grew. Just like the mystery of Nel's birth, and that of her blood related siblings.

"...Say, when did the first of those echoes happen?"