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1.)This wasn’t their first life or even their first life meeting or being related, but it was their first life being twins.
The twins were birthed in the summer and the tribe rejoiced for twins could be a wondrous thing. They grew well and happy in the tribe, appearing to be no different from the other children. The boy was loud and brash while the girl was more content to sit in the background eyes wide and listening.
It was in their twelfth summer when the truth came out. The girl’s beautiful weave work was done by her brother and the boy’s clever traps where set by his sister. The elders were called to determine what was to be done.
The girl sat quietly and watching intently. The boy twitched slightly, not from nervousness but pent up energy. As the elders opened their mouths to announce their judgment, another burst in the tent. He was an old medicine man who no tribe claimed but all knew.
None could say how it happened but when the medicine man left, so did the twins. And they stayed with him to the end of his days.
They travelled from tribe to tribe healing some, driving demons when asked, and cursing others when paid. The old man was good at it and the twins even better.
The girl could trip any over their word and was as vicious and cunning as the fox. The boy’s arrow always flew true and while he was quick to compassion and forgiveness, his viciousness was just as strong as his sister’s.
And when they twin’s knew their time was ending, they went off hand-in-hand and such was the life of Alula and Mirak.
2.) This time Tyrone was born a twin, Mary-Bell was not.
Tyrone and Gavin were a strange pair. They grew up close, just them against the world. Gavin could sweet talk anyone and Tyrone was quick on his feet. Tyrone his Gavin’s anger from the world and Gavin hid Tryone. They always had the other’s back, until the girl came.
They met Mary-Bell in the spring, while flowers were blooming, and Gavin instantly fell in love. (False- Tyrone meet her in the winter, while snow and coldness was seeping into one’s bones, and gave her food against Gavin’s orders.) She was instantly swept into their duo, now a trio. Her smile could light up the world, it certainly lit theirs. Mary-Bell could handle their marks just as easily as Gavin, if not better. (True- They just never told Gavin.)
As her time with the twins grew so did her feeling for Gavin, for all their talents and faults. Gavin was ecstatic and planned to make her his wife as soon as they had the money. Tyrone was scared and jealous. That was his twin, how dare Mary-Bell take Gavin and leave him all alone. He tried to hate Mary-Bell but she and her smile would not let him.
Somewhere between smiles and sweaters, Mary-Bell won him over. She was ecstatic. She had a wonderful man as her husband and a best friend for a brother-in-law. Tyrone was ecstatic. His brother had a wonderful woman for a wife and he won’t be left behind. Gavin was furious. He had seen the smiles between his Mary-Bell, his queen, and Tyrone, his other half. He knew she had been stolen from him. (False- They are many different types of love and Mary-Bell’s heart was big enough for all of them.) And if Gavin couldn’t have her, no one could. (True- Gavin’s anger that Tyrone hid from the world and Mary-Bell had been willing to over look was their undoing.)
When their souls reached the other side, Tyrone and Mary-Bell swore never to be parted again.