Date: Unspecified
Time: Unspecified
Location: Zhongguo (China), Liaodong Province, Shuntian Prefecture, Shenyang City
So far, as the memories continued unfolding, the twins had uncovered many disturbing truths. Measure after measure their so-called mother had taken in pursuit of her ambition to defeat death revealed just how far she had been willing to go. Each step had been deliberate. Each choice had been calculated. Yet the twins still could not see how any of it was supposed to help her actually beat death.
The pieces were all there in the memories they had witnessed. The rituals, the arrangements, the careful shaping of their own birth. When they stepped back and looked at the fragments together, the outline of her plan began to form.
Both of them had already guessed where those pieces were pointing. But both Coryn and Reven refused to arrive at the obvious conclusion. Because then the identity crisis they were trying to suppress would burst forth and swallow them.
