> As for the sister, you have a point there. Maybe it's just that she's so used to wearing her mask that that's what she's become... I don't know. (To quote Sam, "Clearly, [this is a] rationalization made up after the fact.") I'm not at all sure what I intended there.

Don't change that. It's a wonderful way of conveying the coldness she (the dead girl) must have felt from her family. It's not realistic, but it doesn't have to be to do its mission. It's kind of a hyperbole to make a point. It makes it more poetic.

Trav"that's what I think, anyway"holt.