Chapter 24: The Twins

Phon joined us a few minutes later while I pondered what his sister just said. He sat next to her, lifting Sassafras into his lap. The healer twins weren't affiliated with any covens, keeping themselves outside the family system, working directly for the Council, but I couldn't help thinking of them as mine.

"Did you have any idea this was happening?" If anyone had, it would be them.

But they shook their heads in unison, fraternal twins as identical as they could get being opposite genders.

"Not a whiff, Syd." Lula's face crumpled while Phon slipped his arm around her shoulders. "No, that's not true." She sighed away her tears. "The odd weird instance. But nothing that made us think Erica was going to betray everything to the enemy."

"We're going to go back out there and save as many as we can." Phon's face darkened with determination, as though he expected me to argue with him.

"That," I said with the first hint of excitement I'd had in a while, "is an excellent idea."