'I don't quite know how to tell you this.' The doctor held her clipboard close to her chest. 'You're having twins.'629Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡypJu4sMwxs
'But that's great!' Brian hugged his wife, whose bulge was clearly visible beneath the white hospital sheets.629Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4xf8Fkr3cf
'They have different fathers.'629Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcy6ram68JO
Brian's smile began to fade. 'What do you mean?'629Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCO4W1yW5Gq
'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.'629Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP76kqC988L
'Becca? Tell me it isn't true.' 629Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWhzvrPxyad
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.629Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn6gf15Ntdh
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.'629Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1qD03b2RZK
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.629Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh3pKeDs1ev
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.629Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxxjXq9tJRV
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.629Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6JmKyT3MFX
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.629Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa9UAeNCjev
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.629Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT8gDzaJ5XA
When the child was a girl, they would know that there was to be a new High Priestess.629Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL5JL92Jvn0
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.629Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡys8y4UYJk7
But here they were. Without a known High Priestess.629Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMSP1b1ny8r
'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.629Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPEhuQwP72V
Without the High Priestess, Floor Twelve Minus was in danger.
'Rebecca?' He hadn't talked to her in almost a year.629Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV7QxZjTw52
'Get away from me, Hughes. We should never have done that.'629Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtmnRN2MLQI
'Becca, what is it?'629Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYneXC3eZAX
'You have a child.' She spat. 'I gave him away to an orphanage. Angelhouse.'629Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1R8OqHJ9hQ
'Oh my god.'629Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡllS6GitoXg
'Just go. You can have him if you want. I don't want to see you again, ever.'629Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhVDQkpTvRJ
'I'm going. I'm sorry.'629Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB8QF9xY9x3
'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.629Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtxeIaRt8ji
She gazed at the candle on the desk in front of her.629Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmlKXz5PEwm
This is stupid.629Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUVsc8zHKhf
It may be, but it may also be real.629Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWzrjpy52jC
A hissing flame appeared and the wax began to glow.629Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw7rGuv6bgS
She licked her fingers and squeezed the fire to put it out.629Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtXJP2gplpk
Again? You're hallucinating. See your psychologist.629Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbcj60tjStq
No, this is happening, this is really happening.629Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡStxtVoKyVx
The bright red bulb appeared again, brighter than before.629Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡszDnlcLo84
'I did it.' She breathed, softer than a whisper. 'I saved the window washer.'629Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMqlFoQr0TF
'I made the fire.'
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