Alexandra was pleased by the appearance of her sisters, even if she could not help but laugh at their over excitement of her return. It was the home coming she had wanted from the start. The girls might be more brainwashed by their father then she was, but Alex still loved each of them and had taken it upon herself to fill the shoes their mother left. Goodness knowns the women was not able to.

She greeted each with a kiss and a hug, encouraging them to settle, if to stop the moment from being interrupted by their father. She made space for Eleanor to sit next to her on the arm chair, while the others found seats around her as she talked about the school. She picked the safer topics like her peers, the buildings, the food to talk about rather then the old fashioned teaching and barbaric punishments. Her sister need not know any of that.

She had just finished sharing the story of learning to a new dance with one of the other girls, since there was not males, which had lead them both to falling over as neither understood leading, causing her sisters to laugh and give Alex a chance to sneak a look over at her father. She sent him a soft smile before a question from Isobel pulled her attention back to her sisters. She really had missed them.