Chapter 8

Flagen looked at his brother. Though not identical, the twins could be mistaken as such. Bane had the same honey blond hair, the same brown eyes. He was perhaps a half-inch shorter than Flagen’s own six-five. Both he and his brother were lean and muscular. Both had gone into medicine. They were separated in their eleventh cycle and had roomed separately at the academy. The BondMates in their Triad had thought it would be a good thing to separate the twins. They told the brothers that it was to prepare them for lives that could only be lived independent of each other. They needed to draw apart to enable a PairBond and eventually find a fem to form a Triad. Up until that time, Flagen recalled, he and his brother had been inseparable. After, Flagen, bitter and wary at both the separation and the result, had stayed away from Bane until the Zyptz attack changed everything.

“Flagen, where are you, brother?” asked Bane. The inscrutable look left Flagen’s face and he smiled back at Bane.