She throws her head back and bellows out a shriek of triumph.“Ha!All this time you have been hell-bent on stopping me because you thought I was going to destroy everything?”
I step back, hesitant.Of course that’s what I’ve been doing.I value our world.I wanted to live with Gellara for as long as the realms would have us.
My wings bristle, stretching out behind me.“I… don’t understand.Did you not see the same vision?”
She huffs, shaking her head at me as if I’m the most ignorant child she’s ever met.“No, Sister.I did not.”
I shuffle away from her.This is all wrong.She has to be lying.“Then what did you see?”
She turns away, running her fingers over the rusty climbing frame.“Does it matter now?This is the end for us.We won’t last long without our moths.”
“Of course it matters.Innocents have died in the pursuit of each other.Gellara died because of this absurd obsession with ending fate you have been pursuing.Is it not the least you can do for me?To give me this resolution?”
She sighs, her wings spreading behind her.I suspect we look much like peacocks standing off against each other.Ready to fight.
Her fist clenches around the metal pole she was picking at.It crumbles beneath her grip.
Destroyed.
She will never change.
Not even at the end.
“I saw…” She rubs her hands, the rust dust sprinkling on to the floor, and then she rounds on me.“Absolutely nothing.”
I hesitate, step away from her.“No.That’s not… what do you mean?You had to see a vision, an image even.”
“I saw nothing,” she growls it this time.“No fate.No future.I received nothing.”
“That doesn’t make any sense,” I breathe.“You have no fate?”
She shrugs.“Why would I believe in a system that forgot me?A system that abandoned me and didn’t think I deserved a fate?”
“But all angels get a fate.”
“Yes,” she says and inches closer to me.“But what are we?Truly, I mean?”
“I…”
“Come on, Architecti.What did the elder angel say to you?”
“You heard?”I gasp.
“Oh, get over yourself.I stayed and eavesdropped.Now tell me.What was it he said?”
“Angels aren’t meant to be twins.Our magic is powerful.But it is supposed to be contained inside one vessel.Not split between twins,” I breathe, already knowing where this is going.
“Yessss,” she drawls.“So the system didn’t just forget me, it eradicated my entire existence and gave it all to you, dear fucking sister.”
“It’s not possible.”
“And yet, here we are.”
“So you did all of this out of what?Spite?A fucking abandonment complex?YOU KILLED GELLARA.”
“Lies.You self-righteous fucking ego-centred cunt.I didn’t do this because I was rejected.Fateerasedme.It gave me nothing.Because I am not good enough to warrant a destiny.Because of you… you got everything.All the goodness.The fucking light.Gods, I am so exhausted by you and your vitriol.”She paces up and down the park, dragging her feet and kicking stones as she moves.
“What the hell is wrong with you?Do you have any idea how many people have died because of you?”I shriek.
