This year passed incredibly quickly, like all the previous ones. It seems that now time runs relentlessly. Christmas was approaching - a wonderful family holiday. Of course, your "family" was a little different from normal families, because instead of the usual composition of "parents and children", there were eight clones, Fedor and you, the ninth (random?) clone. The approach of Christmas inevitably created a pre-holiday routine: cleaning, preparing gifts and later, on the eve of the holiday, preparing dinner. Everyone divided among themselves, preparing gifts for others. You've been thinking for a while about what to give Kuromaku and already have something in mind. He is very interested in science and reads a lot of books, from science to fiction. You have often seen how he has to wrap pages or put some papers for bookmarks. What could be a gift? Undoubtedly a set for reading - magnetic bookmarks, metal corners for the cover, transparent stickers for recording thoughts so as not to spoil the book. It was a perfect decision, without thinking about it, you decided to order them. The night before Christmas, a few minutes before midnight, you started exchanging gifts. With a beaming smile, you held out the wrapped reading kit and accepted it, a neatly wrapped gift. It was interesting what was there.Surprise and amusement washed over you as you saw a rather similar reading set, just in a different palette, looking up at Kuromaka. In turn, he looked up from his gift at you and smiled softly. "Maybe we read each other's minds"