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Chapter Twenty Two: The Separation •EDITED•

The nine year old grinned through her pain. "Of course."

"What type of poison is it?"

Edythe laughed and took her brother's hand in hers, still inspecting him for wounds. "Do I look like a poison specialist to you?"

Of course she had made it just yesterday, but he didn't need to know that. It was a recipe her mother had taught her and the antidote was another.

His scowl reverted to his normal smirk of nonchalance. "I know what I should do now, it was stupid of me to have used anything less than my best against the daughter of Harriet."

Edythe froze on hearing her mother's name.

"Where is she?" She watched the gold in the man's eyes morph to a blood red.

"Do you know rare it is for a halfling to be half awakened by a hybreed?" He seemed to be talking more to himself than her. With his eyes giving off that eerie red glow, he licked his pale lips. "Barely ten and yet your eyes glow much more than mine. You can only blame yourself."

"What?" Edythe had never been more confused in her life. And something told her that the man wasn't going to explain things to her.

She watched in a sort of frozen awe as the blood on his fingertips condensed into a small ball and flew towards her. When it didn't touch her she immediately feared the worst.

Turning around, she saw that it hadn't gotten close to Esau either, but had instead landed on a lizard that happened to be crawling down the trunk of the tree from a higher branch.

Like magic, she saw it grow in length, size and shape until somehow she ended up staring at her own face. Without her mind fully understanding what was happening, she watched in a daze as her brother was taken away by a tree crawling version of herself.

Edythe stared in confusion at the empty spot in front of her. The only signs that her brother had been there were the gloves that were now clutched tightly in her hands and his backpack. She had been holding onto him then he was suddenly whisked away.

He was gone. . . . It didn't make any sense to her.

Edythe had let him slip right through her fingers. . . Was that even possible?

"Now child," the man started again, glee audible in his voice, "come with me or your brother dies."

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Ah, the mystery is solved. Who expected this?
Okay, the man in white sort of reminds me of our doctor in red, haha. I have no idea what's wrong with people in this universe, totally obsessed with colors.

I'm glad to announced the end of tree time! Esau and Edythe have been successfully separated and will probably stay that way for a while. Poor twins.

Edythe really annoyed this guy, staining his white clothes with his blood. Tsk, tsk.

Now, up next should be Philip. Then after him should be Dawn, then after her should be Corey. And after all that we'll see what happens!

I can't believe we've gotten this far (imagine gratefulness on my face). Thank you for reading, please do vote and comment if you enjoyed.

Question of the chapter

Are you confused? Any theories on where this guy that's harassing our twins came from?