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feather and tell you it's a message, believe me!”
    Loosening his grip he drops me from his 6' 9 height, and before I can regain my balance he's vanished from the spacious study.
    Nothing makes sense anymore. I know mom died last week, I can feel it. I have a hole in my soul wider than the galactic center. It hurts. I can't stop thinking about her. I miss her .
    “It's the love you miss. Not mom,” says Darise, finally stepping out from behind the door.
    “How long have you been standing there?”
    “For ages,” he shrugs, giving me a guilty smile. Stooping, he picks up the feather, twirling it around in his fingers. “So... what do you think he meant by this?”
    Snatching it out of his hand, I glower, “He gave it to me. Get your own damn messages and clues.”
    Reappearing in my bedroom, I throw myself onto the bed to stare at the drab gloom. They gave us lethe, the potion of forgetfulness. I don't know whether to be grateful or angry.
    I have a soul deep feeling my redemption is here, somewhere at the tip of Africa where lost secrets lie waiting for discovery in Davy Jones locker on the ocean floor.
    It makes sense to hide it where diving is impossible and predators are numerous. But there's more here, I can feel it pulsing through me like a physical heartbeat reaching me from a siamese twin. There's also a great darkness shifting between the realms here. It keeps me on edge, paranoid, and hyper aware.
    Ellindt comes into my room, filling it instantly with her perfume. It was made uniquely for our womenfolk by a sage we've forgotten... thanks to the lethe probably. It infiltrates male cerebellum, locking it intuitively inside the thick fatty tissue encasing the left and right hemispheres of the brain, sinking tentacles of ownership right into the subconscious.
    “What do you want?” I grumble, refusing to move.
    “Is it true? Darise said we were given the potion of forgetfulness and made teenagers again. Why?”
    The ache in her tone drastically twists my heart, and I sit up, looking into her tearful eyes.
    Swallowing the thick lump now in mine at the sight of my twin in distress, I lift my arm. She slides immediately into the invitation, hiding her head and leaving her tears to trace a hot trail on my shoulder while I hug her to me.
    “I don't know why. He said it was so we could find love, to find a human young enough to offer us redemption.”
    How many times have they done this to us? And more importantly, why? If it takes me a decade I'll get to the bottom of this. I refuse to ever let us be their victims again. He did it to have power over us, I'm sure of it.
    “Are we so hateful and cold that they need to strip us of our memories?” she murmurs miserably.
    “No, we're not.” I shake my head, kissing her forehead, “Venix sucks. I need to find a way to get rid of him as our warden. He's callous and cruel.”
    “Shhh!” urges Jowendrhan as he slinks into my bedroom, scooting like SWAT tracking a terrorist. “He'll hear you.”
    “I don't give a damn if he hears me,” I say loudly.
    Darise lurches in the doorway, folding his arms and looking arrogantly at me. “That's why he's hardest on you. It pays to kiss ass.”
    Impaling him with my glare, I scowl, indicating he shut up for Ellindt's sake.
    He points an accusing finger at me, “It's your attitude. You refuse to conform, and you're stronger than all of us put together.”
    “What's that supposed to mean?” I challenge, and Ellie sits up, wiping her vulnerable blue eyes.
    Gushy and subdued, she whispers to him, “Your pride will see you fall. One day you will serve us, and you'll wonder why. I can tell you why, when we needed you, you abandoned us. Instead of protecting us you side with the one who picks our hearts open with a savage's hunger. Darise mark my words, one day you will regret this.”
    Ellindt just cursed our oldest brother.
    Heck, this isn't good. She has no clue she's more powerful than any male, what she says comes to