Inheritance

A memory came to me. “My fiancée told me a story.” Selene listened to my retelling: at a gala, the pianist was complimented in French by a Chinese–German girl with brown almond eyes. Her parents scolded her for bothering a stranger, and she talked back in German and Chinese before her sister with blue almond eyes stepped in. “The older girl smacked her in public, then disciplined her with a name and a command.”