"Hmm. You're a veritable study in the debate of nature versus nurture then," he replies. "Twins that are separated for whatever reason are often used in such studies in order to determine whether our genes or our upbringing has more of an effect on who we turn out to be."

Malcolm had told Ye Zun about the twins who were silent until one died so that the other could live and Ye Zun had talked about absorbing Shen Wei, which was pretty wild. Overall, he could tell that they had a minorly unhealthy preoccupation with each other. He guessed he couldn't blame them. Malcolm was pretty protective of his little sister.