He's not wrong. Josie nods as she curls her fingers around her cup.
"There's not many of us left. It's pretty much me and Lizzie, but the fact that there are two Gemini twins in existence is enough."
For the curse, anyway. Which she will get to.
"See, a long time ago, a curse was put on the Gemini Coven. Essentially the deal is that any twins born into the family line are put through a ritual called the Merge on their twenty-second birthdays. It's ... like a battle of wills. The twin that wins essentially ... absorbs the essence of the other. And the twin who loses, dies."
She doesn't bother to sugarcoat it because there's not much to sugarcoat.
"Even if I do win and absorb Lizzie, I won't be the same after. She'll be a part of me and I'll change as a result, so as far as I'm concerned the person that I am now won't make it past twenty-two."
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"There's not many of us left. It's pretty much me and Lizzie, but the fact that there are two Gemini twins in existence is enough."
For the curse, anyway. Which she will get to.
"See, a long time ago, a curse was put on the Gemini Coven. Essentially the deal is that any twins born into the family line are put through a ritual called the Merge on their twenty-second birthdays. It's ... like a battle of wills. The twin that wins essentially ... absorbs the essence of the other. And the twin who loses, dies."
She doesn't bother to sugarcoat it because there's not much to sugarcoat.
"Even if I do win and absorb Lizzie, I won't be the same after. She'll be a part of me and I'll change as a result, so as far as I'm concerned the person that I am now won't make it past twenty-two."