Dear cmbaker, Part 2 of the ongoing gift and story hopefully will not disrupt your current game to much as I moved a pre-existing ea/maxis sim and bulldozed their house to make this one. See the note after the story, to see which sim was relocated as well as house torn down. Slaine, who was older than her sister by two minutes, tugged at her glove before picking up the well worn rucksack off the ground. "Well that's that, and we don't worry about having to move again in a weeks time." Wulfrun shrugged as she swung her equally worn rucksack over her shoulder. "Do you think we'll have trouble getting a cab this late on a Friday?" Slaine saw the sparkle in Wulfrun's eyes and was relieved that a cab pulled up within minutes of ordering one on the app. It's not that she didn't share in her sisters love of pushing boundaries, it was more that she didn't relish the idea of a weekend in jail because her sister wanted to steal Ms. Crumplebottoms Victorian electric car again. Last time they had both been juveniles, and as such protected, even though it meant getting bounced out of yet another foster home. They had just finished their outtake with Abdulla Tinnin, their 17th and final caseworker. The MacNeill twins had tried not to get upset when they heard party horns and poppers go off as the doors to childrens welfare had closed behind them. It wasn't as if they had ever caused trouble on purpose, things just always seemed to happen. Like when they'd first been placed as infants. Wulfrun had been placed with a were family, and Slaine had been placed with a regular family. That placement hadn't lasted a day. Slaine had looked at her file on a few occasion's, her perfectionist streak required that she know what was being written up about her and her sister. It would seem that anytime one of the twins was placed in a bed apart from the other during that first week, they would suddenly appear in the bed and home of the other twin. By the end of the weeks one of the fairy's in charge of the godparents division advised the twins worker to keep them placed together. Thus began their infamous tour of every single foster and group home, as well as residential hall, in and out of Moonlit Falls. Oddly they managed to keep up just enough consistency to properly, barely, graduate high school before they aged out of the system. As they buckled their seat belts Slaine instructed the driver to take them to 2 Lupine Lane. "Are you sure" the driver had asked. "Yes" Slaine responded firmly, clutching the envelope with the property deed, while her sister was inspecting the ancient skeleton key that had come with the deed. The cab dropped them off at the end of Lupine Lane. To one side was thinned forest, and ancient cabin ruins just a short walk up the way. To the other was a thick wall of impenetrable hedges and trees. Wulfrun glanced at Slaine, some hesitation crept into her voice as she looked up the hill, "you don't suppose the ruins are 2 Lupine Lane do you?" "No, it can't be" Slaine tried to sound more confident than she was feeling. Just at that moment both of their phones chimed the time and an alarm 5:17 in the evening. The twins hugged each other tight, and spoke in unison "Happy birthday sister dear." Feeling an ethereal tug both turned towards the thicket across from them and stared with their jaws hanging open in astonishment. Were an impenetrable wall of hedges and trees had been stood a cabin surrounded by overgrown trees and hedges. Making their way up the short path the twins felt excitement and curiosity well up inside. Slaine and Wulfrun were both quick to note the path around the side and that the lights turned on inside as they walked up. Wulfrun barely touched the key to the lock when the door swung open for them. As Wulfrun grabbed their rucksacks from the curbside, Slaine poked her head in the two rooms on the downhill side of the cabin. The first room was of decent size and had an apothecaries work bench, as well as books in random stacks. Slaine smiled happily at the stacks of books, she'd run out of fresh reading material by the 10th grade. The second was a small, tight you could even say, washroom with a tub, toilet, and sink. They both inspected the portraits on the wall. Slaine felt an odd tingle as she dusted free the names engraved on the man and the woman; Slaine and Emer. She could tell by cracking in the paint that the portraits were several hundred years old. The twins inspected the narrow rooms on the uphill side and found two narrow beds. As Slaine set a box of tissue on the nightstand Wulfrun tapped on the wall "look out the window, you can almost see the ruins from here." Smoothing the already smooth duvet cover Slaine smiled to herself. She was glad that they would be able to talk through the wall. This would be their first night in 17 years in separate beds. The hedge had parted as told, that was good. The instructions had been very clear. Once all were inside the envelope was to be placed in the window, the door knocked on, but no waiting around. Being out at dusk was uncomfortable so the no waiting wasn't an issue. Wulfrun was just about to turn on the tv when the twins heard a soft knock at the back door. Glancing at her twin she shrugged and stood to investigate. Opening the door Wulfrun didn't see anyone, not even any of the trees were close enough to blame the knock on a branch. "You don't suppose it was Jules or Joe MacDuff do you?" Wulfrun's voice trailed off as she saw the envelope that she could have sworn hadn't been there when she opened the door. Wulfrun carefully pulled the thick crisp paper from the window grate and turned it over. There was no writing on the outside of the envelope, just a thick waxy seal on one side holding it together. "Slaine look at this." Wulfrun held out the envelope. Slaine and Wulfrun sat in silence, the evening had been an interesting one to cap their already exciting afternoon and evening. The second Slaine's hand had touched the envelope to take it from Wulfrun the wax seal had rolled off the envelope and up into the air in a wisp of smoke, and the thick paper had dissolved into a cloud that hung in the air before the two of them. Before they could fully respond to the cloud it shifted in form to look like a floating piece of paper. Neat calligraphy started to flow across the paper and a dry voice spoke in unison to the words. Decedents of Kinnaird, thine blood be pure, thine line direct, tho centuries separate you from those who first bore thine name as last and true heirs you are. Your presence is required in three days time at sundown at the office of Ayden Van Gould to learn about thine full inheritance. The message was repeated three times, then the paper reformed and drifted to rest on the coffee table before them. They had talked briefly for the name part threw them off, as their last name was MacNeill not Kinnaird. Then Wulfrun had stared at the portraits, before pointing at the upper one of the man "you said the name engraved is Slaine, and from the family tree project there was an uncle Slaine who'd died as a child in an accident. Could it be your name that is what's being mentioned?" Once again Wulfrun was grateful that she was second born and wondered if some of her twins perfectionism was from the stress of being first born. Slaine & Wulfrun MacNeill Straight from cas: https://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=9432265 With the cabin (warning spoiler): https://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=9432266 MacNeill Cabin: https://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=9432267
Built at 2 Lupine Lane** Moonlit Falls ** 2 Lupine Lane is a preoccupied and built lot. Pappy Wolf resides in The Humble House on the lot. To build the MacNeill cabin I moved Pappy to an existing empty lot on Lupine Lane, and bulldozed his house.
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