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She wondered why she hadn’t smelled them before, when they were holding her between them and comforting her on the couch. Maybe because her nose had been stuffed up from crying. At any rate, they smelled amazing now and she wasn’t sure how to answer Light’s question. But before she could, Dark cut in.
“There’s no point in asking her that—asking her if she’s interested in Bonding with us,” he growled at his twin. There was a bitter note to his voice that surprised Lili.
“What are you talking about?” she asked, frowning up at him.
“He’s saying that we can’t Bond a female to us, because we’re an Imperfect Twin Pair,” Light explained. He sounded sad about it, Lili thought.
She shook her head.
“I don’t understand. How are you ‘imperfect?’”
Dark frowned.
“It’s my fault—has to do with my fucking Re’thian Berserker DNA. It keeps us from lining up perfectly genetically, which is what Twin Kindred need in order to Join their shafts and Bond a female to them.”
“Oh…are you sure?” Lili asked.
Light nodded.
“We tried once before.”
“Didn’t fucking work,” Dark growled.
“So unfortunately, it seems that my brother and I are SFL too, as you put it,” Light finished for him.
“I’m sorry, guys…” Lili put a hand on each of their arms, trying to comfort them. “That’s tough—especially if you really wanted to Bond with a female.”
“That’s the thing—we never did,” Dark said.
“But of course, that was before we started having emotions,” Light added, giving his brother a significant look.
“Yeah, fucking emotions.” Dark sighed.
“Don’t you like having emotions, though?” Lili asked. “I thought you were enjoying it.”
The Dark Twin looked down at her.
“I never had any emotions but The Fury until we met you, little Lili,” he rumbled. “But now I’m feeling a new one—I feel sorry that Light and I can’t Bond a female to us. I don’t know what that’s called though.”
“Maybe…regret?” Lili offered tentatively. “And do you really have to, er, Bond a woman to you in order to have a relationship?”
“Any relationship without a Bonding is incomplete,” Light answered for his brother. “A Soul Bond is necessary for a lasting Joining.”
Lili opened her mouth to reply but just then a voice from the ship’s com-link said,
“Fights Darkness, you are cleared for lift off.”
“Got it. Lifting off now.” Dark pulled back on the steering yoke and the sleek, silver long-range shuttle rose into the sky.
A moment later they were hovering in space surveying an enormous red gash that looked like a glowing red wound to Lili.
“Oh, are we going into that?” she exclaimed.
“We are,” Light told her. “Do you want to hold my hand?” He offered her one big hand and Lili took it gratefully.
“Get ready you two—here we fucking go!” Dark growled.
And then the ship shot forward, straight into the red gash in space.
