'I don't quite know how to tell you this.' The doctor held her clipboard close to her chest. 'You're having twins.'706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAEn1xd4ULR
'But that's great!' Brian hugged his wife, whose bulge was clearly visible beneath the white hospital sheets.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8JVTy7Ff3x
'They have different fathers.'706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb7aXYXRaXH
Brian's smile began to fade. 'What do you mean?'706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7MLGsHaXqF
'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.'706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWwFQdHSLTZ
'Becca? Tell me it isn't true.' 706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvOUPzhM0r9
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.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoCjskwUIza
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.'706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIL8cq2RCYa
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.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpeaDbFtPTf
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.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbqQfFWZwWX
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.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ86irrfdmVD
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.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkTit46rpQC
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.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG5BbApMLnK
When the child was a girl, they would know that there was to be a new High Priestess.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHNVoLkfROL
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.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfoxoLxfUmo
But here they were. Without a known High Priestess.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpfj6fDoNeY
'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.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSULUDXi8zV
Without the High Priestess, Floor Twelve Minus was in danger.
'Rebecca?' He hadn't talked to her in almost a year.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5riRifeiyE
'Get away from me, Hughes. We should never have done that.'706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcmU1Ufmfv7
'Becca, what is it?'706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡccpnxFM9uW
'You have a child.' She spat. 'I gave him away to an orphanage. Angelhouse.'706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa3cTyLWlKY
'Oh my god.'706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡms8AxqU9NC
'Just go. You can have him if you want. I don't want to see you again, ever.'706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqdZMCenePI
'I'm going. I'm sorry.'706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHlv7CgrVe6
'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.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbyrelF0fgI
She gazed at the candle on the desk in front of her.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDnryh67hNo
This is stupid.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ17L0Rz5y4v
It may be, but it may also be real.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYbo9cIgHfN
A hissing flame appeared and the wax began to glow.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ42ZTYMF5bJ
She licked her fingers and squeezed the fire to put it out.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEobPeOpxs0
Again? You're hallucinating. See your psychologist.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJWRhWxYL5Q
No, this is happening, this is really happening.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIOP9VYnz6H
The bright red bulb appeared again, brighter than before.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfY03VyGkZ0
'I did it.' She breathed, softer than a whisper. 'I saved the window washer.'706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTDYHRvZFfo
'I made the fire.'
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