Sibling Duty

[Omi]

Shaking her head slowly, Marisa let out a huge sigh.
"I'll put on some tea," she ventured, picking her way across the apartment. The dreariness of the room was almost oppressive; the bare walls and general shabbiness a far cry from her own flat, which wasn't even that impressive to begin with.

Leaving her brother to finish calming down, she set about boiling the kettle, and located a small box of teabags nestled behind an empty biscuit tin.

A few minutes later, Marisa returned to the main living room and made her way over to the couch, wielding two steaming mugs of tea; one black and one white.

"Here," she said, offering the milked cup to Malachy. "Things won' seem so bad after this."

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