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Sonora was still second guessing herself when another twin appeared with a light hearted question."Sorry! Then you must be Iggy?" she smiled up at Kam. It took her a moment but she caught on to the playful mood and squinted up at both of them curiously. "I...thought you were Iggy and you were Kam, but now I'm not so sure?" she said, gesturing to the right twins and then swapping her fingers. She waited for a moment before realizing they weren't about to just tell her who was who. "Oh you two are being cute, aren't you? Sit, sit. This'll be fun."

This is like a spot-the-difference puzzle! she thought, carefully watching and listening. There had to be a tell here.Their clothes were no help as Iggy? Kam? The first twin to arrive! had indicated-- no scarves, no house-specific apparel, no class-specific accessories. There was only Kam's book but that wasn't class specific and she'd decided already Iggy could totally borrow Kam's book.

Instead she glanced between them, listening for a clue what they said, how they said it, how they stood. Did one of them know she had been locked up in the library all month? Well, either of them could have spotted her there or guessed. The abbreviated "about" seemed more like one of Iggy's convivial greetings but that wasn't a definite. She finally noticed that the second twin to arrive seemed to be shaking a bit-- He wasn't doing Jonah's 8-cups-of-coffee jitter dance so she assumed it was Iggy trying to hold back his laughter. Or maybe that had just been a shiver and she was overthinking things? It was the smirk that convinced Sona she had her first clue -- that had to be Kam. So she had gotten it wrong the first time. Either way, she could use more data to confirm:

"Could I ask a question? Say, tell me something about one of the electives you're taking?" Sona had most of her classes with one twin or the other and while she knew they both had classes that she wasn't in, she figured she'd be able to tell by the subject content, if not the way they said it.

Sonora flinched a little when one twin commented that she couldn't tell them apart-- surely she could tell her friends apart right?...No, no they were simply taunting her. She refocused on the observation at hand, determined to get this right. The sprawling, the fluffed hair--those were another case for the second twin being Iggy....unless, as she suddenly realized, they were intentionally acting like each other. In that case, she could only rely on subtle tells--things they might not have thought of.

That discounted the sprawling--it was too big a gesture. But the higher, more energetic, lilting, that could still be Iggy. Oh, and now she was just playing mind games with herself.

Music! Of course he would say music, you're both in music,Sonora made a little pouting face. Of course naming an instrument after that would have been too much to ask. She almost discarded the Hotel California detail, but then abruptly sitting at attention and looked up in triumphant success."Aha! Then I was wrong at first," she declared, deciding with that. Kam, Iggy she said, holding her palms out to the wrong twins.

"Book, collected speech, and conclusively, the smirk. And over here, we have the sprawling, the barely-disguised giggles, and this thing--" she reached over and brushed the fluffy mess of Kam's hair--"But the deciding clue-- the intro to Hotel California is a guitar piece! And, it was one of the few guitar songs I found and sent you over the summer, wasn't it!" She nodded, quite convinced and pleased she hadn't just let that detail go.

Sonora nodded in agreement, appreciating Iggy's hug. He really did give wonderful hugs. It helped push away the negative thoughts and she nodded in agreement, shoving the rest of the negativity away. She could linger on what it all meant later.

"N-no no, it's okay, Sona spoke up when Kam snapped at his brother. The last thing she wanted was for the twins to be upset just because of her. ”It was just a prank after all," she said, her voice growing lighter as she said it. Exactly. It was a prank and she was completely overreacting. Pranks were harmless, laughter-bringing schemes. "My being fooled just means the two of you are so close that you can act like each other when you want!"

And that was a fascinating thought. There was no way Jonah felt bad whenever Vespera pranked him after all. She should not have taken this so seriously. Now that she thought about it, maybe it was just because she prided herself on usually being able to tell the twins apart that it struck home? ”I should be flattered you both thought I was discerning enough to be tested! So don’t you worry. Besides, if you don’t do it again, then I’ll never have a chance to be right!”

She was though, touched that Kam was so adamant about not having this mixup again just because she had gotten upset about it. She reached out once Iggy had let her go to offer Kam a hug too. ”Music is always wonderful. I’d love to listen.” She sighed, realizing her books were still scattered everywhere and getting in the way of a proper hug. ”Or if you don’t mind we could do a study party? I’ve been putting off figuring out Arithmancy notes all morning and haven’t even done the reading for History.”

And don't even remind me about Astronomy.