'I don't quite know how to tell you this.' The doctor held her clipboard close to her chest. 'You're having twins.'605Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYvyRWusR2W
'But that's great!' Brian hugged his wife, whose bulge was clearly visible beneath the white hospital sheets.605Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDNqStzZVck
'They have different fathers.'605Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7YHYFDUs4J
Brian's smile began to fade. 'What do you mean?'605Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiCCrBuZSTD
'It's a rare occurrence. One in a million, I'd say. It's called superfecundation. It's when the two eggs are fertilized by different sperm within one ovulation cycle.'605Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbNdPmqBy5t
'Becca? Tell me it isn't true.' 605Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4j7oX4pBT7
The woman in the hospital bed is silent for a moment. 'I'm so sorry.'
The girl, they called Christine. Christine was theirs. The boy, they didn't name. He went to an orphanage.605Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCI7RxXcErI
They never talked about it again, not for the eight years after the twins came out. Not for the eight years before the fire.
'We've got another job. The target is WestGo Insurance. They're popular, and they're getting more and more powerful. Knight Finances doesn't want this. Our task is to break up WestGo, and it seems like it'll be pretty simple. The CEO, Gareth Greene, his office is on the 37th floor of the highrise office in the city. All we need to do is get a big enough fire going. With all the employees, all the brains, and the main center of the company gone it'll have collapsed enough for Knight Finances to take over the market.'605Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNNkqyAZj6F
Hughes, despite his age, was one of the most respected members of Floor Twelve Minus, and was the second in command. His leaving would have been upsetting, no doubt, so many members almost considered it a blessing that his son had failed the final Trial of the Bind.605Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFdE5bkS2hT
He was a skilled magician, excelling in the arts of fire and telekinesis. Revival was a power hardly needed in Floor Twelve Minus, and typically only the High Priestess could revive something as difficult as a human.605Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX2DMnsnKFO
It had become clear, after Xavier's trials, that Orla had lost the position of High Priestess. Once the new female magician turned 27, they would inherit all the power of the High Priestess - and the old High Priestess loses it all.605Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCt1EbcHnjA
Orla had lost it all, and thus she served no more purpose. Floor Twelve Minus was quick to dispose of her, making Hughes the one to answer to.605Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡntXGdLcY8N
There was tension growing within the members. The ability to pull power from the Void, the ability to perform magic, was hereditary. They liked to keep track of all the magicians they knew. So they developed the system that satisfied them all. Every member would impregnate a non-magic woman through the means of an affair, and through any means break all bonds but take custody of the child. They would train their child, almost always a son, and on the child's 27th, they would take the place of their father.605Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwIHqhMrRfb
When the child was a girl, they would know that there was to be a new High Priestess.605Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqh7HEnLlNs
The problem was this - the system had worked for over a century, and the four High Priestesses in that time were all within the system, leading them to believe that no magicians existed in the world outside of Floor Twelve Minus.605Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYoIJeWOsOG
But here they were. Without a known High Priestess.605Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQaRmhF8XDM
'Are you all paying attention?' Hughes demanded, attempting to gain the same authority of Orla while she was in power. But he was rattled, too.605Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ05bz0g0MmX
Without the High Priestess, Floor Twelve Minus was in danger.
'Rebecca?' He hadn't talked to her in almost a year.605Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPVhuZcjYdw
'Get away from me, Hughes. We should never have done that.'605Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy3Pa9Ih4fn
'Becca, what is it?'605Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK220YynABq
'You have a child.' She spat. 'I gave him away to an orphanage. Angelhouse.'605Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhVxSaAFlrl
'Oh my god.'605Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi1ezkAdW69
'Just go. You can have him if you want. I don't want to see you again, ever.'605Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKMOewl0bCc
'I'm going. I'm sorry.'605Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO7vXtbUDj9
'No you're not. You men never are. Now get out of my sight.'
Christine knew she had done it. However impossible, she had saved the man. She was growing increasingly confident that her memories of the fire were more than childhood imagination. It had been her. She did the fire. And she could do it again.605Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjqtBpH1efA
She gazed at the candle on the desk in front of her.605Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyqV92StC2p
This is stupid.605Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLPZUWBZmW3
It may be, but it may also be real.605Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcxEMnGQd5H
A hissing flame appeared and the wax began to glow.605Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXsjejqG7Ba
She licked her fingers and squeezed the fire to put it out.605Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiesPCUN0lm
Again? You're hallucinating. See your psychologist.605Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO2wNhFBVuj
No, this is happening, this is really happening.605Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYR2FmeXcgT
The bright red bulb appeared again, brighter than before.605Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgBfYdbp00x
'I did it.' She breathed, softer than a whisper. 'I saved the window washer.'605Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHLKIMKGOKF
'I made the fire.'
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