Letter to Karin

Dear Karin,

Some nights ago, I was having a great time at the fancy twilight (twilight as in "the time after sunset", nothing else) picnic and garden party in the Purple Gardens. Great event, nice food, free drinks, lovely people. You should have been there.
And you know what, I met a person there who said they were your sister! Imagine my surprise – I had no idea you had a sister, much less a sister like this person. She didn't look much like you, I must say.
To be honest, I'm actually not entirely sure "she" was female, but she didn't seem very masculine either – very androgynous, undefinable.
From the pimply skin I would guess about seventeen, with long blond hair, and she insisted she was a Tengu (although it must have been pretty obvious to most guests that she was in fact an incarnation of Apollo, if anything.)

Sound familiar?

Anyhow, a very charming and entertaining young person, talkative and friendly to all. But, and this is the reason I'm writing: this nice person who said she was your sister (sorry, I didn't catch her name) was also not wearing any clothes at all, and was happily running around completely buck-naked among the guests and food tables in the gardens.
(And still I could not make out whether this person was a she, or a he, or both or perhaps neither. Maybe it just wasn't a very important thing, at the time.)

Thing is, I couldn't help notice that some of the other guests seemed a bit embarrassed by her lack of clothing. The general mood and conversation turned a little bit weird at times, smiles turned a little stiff, you know...
My dad was there too – you know dad, he's a bit old-fashioned, not really up to date with all the new things kids do these days. He was too polite to comment, but I could see he thought all of this was very strange indeed. I really had no idea what to say to him so I just pretended that nothing out of the ordinary was going on.

I'm sure she didn't mean any harm. As I said, she was a delightful and charming person to meet, nudity aside. If all of your non-corporeal relatives are this nice, they are very welcome to visit my future dreams – but perhaps you could gently suggest that they might consider putting on something, like maybe a pair of boxers, before visiting – at least when at larger formal events.

For the sake of the other guests, you know.

Me, I don't mind so much what people wear or not, as long as everybody is having fun and there is enough cake for all.

Anyway, I just wanted to let you know. :)

Talk to you later!
Lots of hugs, J.