He senses that there's much more to the story. Normally, you wouldn't have to specify that you and your sibling share parents, but she'd said biological parents before, so...whatever her situation is, it sounds as complicated as she says it is. Untangling all of it isn't really his business, though. He's just here to lend an ear and some sympathy.

"I kind of get it. My brother understood me in a way nobody else really can."

They'd lived in the same fish bowl. Under the same pressure from all directions: their parents, the public, the weight of the past. Their position isolated them from their peers, an invisible but unbreachable wall. It was always just the two of them. Until it was only Wilhelm left. He frowns into his wine glass.

"It's...hard, not having them around."

His brother, her sister.