The Secret's Keeper and the Heir by Jackie McCarthy

Author:Jackie McCarthy
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Chapter 9:

The Twin

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Twin Magic and Abnormality

A History of Magics

Chapter the Twelfth

By Samjam Juggerram

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Of twin magic there is much to be said. We must begin, however, by breaking a common misconception: not all twin siblings are magical.

There are two kinds of twins: those created when two separate spirits form into infants at the same time, and those created by the splitting of a single spirit into two bodies. It is the second kind only who harbors mystical abilities.

In the modern world, closed as it is to magical energies, most people carry their spirit tightly inside their bodies. Here they are protected and sheltered. As a result, the spirit, through which a person may connect to the undercurrents of power, is held separate from such energy.

With twins, this is not the case. A single spirit intent on sharing two bodies must travel back and forth between them. This means it is constantly exposing itself and lacks the protection of its single-bodied counterparts. Because it is constantly in motion, then, it will regularly come into contact with the ebb and flow of magical energies. This exposure allows most twins to dabble in the craft unawares, and is the reason that many magicians in history were twins.

One such magician, called Turg, became known for his brutal experiments on twin children after the death of his own brother, Murg. In his experiments he would treat one child as precious, and the other he would hurt or maim horribly, sometimes feeding them strange potions or performing dark rites. When the child under experiment had died, he would kill the other child as well, and compare the two in exhaustive detail.

While the physiognomy of these slaughtered siblings may have fascinated the deranged Turg, it became clear from his findings (before he was taken to sea and sunk) that he had been asking the wrong questions.

When a twin expires, the living sibling has two options: he may either live or die. Because a spirit will sometimes have a firmer grasp on one child than the other, the second brother’s mortality is likely to be determined by whether or not the spirit remains with him or moves forward into the next life. Because the spirit will go one way or the other, killing a twin, though terrible, is not the cruelest of punishments.

It’s when twins are separated for long periods of time and over long distances that things may become particularly unstable, magically speaking. There will be a point at which the two bodies between which the spirit travels are put at too great a distance. As the connection between siblings fails, the spirit will either abandon a sibling, leaving him soulless, or be split in two. In the latter scenario, these separate parts are not necessarily symmetrical, but they are both, by their nature, vastly incomplete. Each sibling lives still, it’s true, but it’s a feeble sort of life—lived with only a fraction of a soul.

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