<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ccff">Lucian smiled at seeing her look so eager to learn. <span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4da6ff">“The catch is that if you accept this you have no life outside what I allow. Once you graduate the fifth circle, as both of you have the potential for, you are free to go or stay as you wish. Until then you will answer everything I say, do anything I ask, anything at all, without pause or complaint. I told you that I won’t hurt you as long as you follow directions, and my word is my bond. You may eventually get the right to disagree with me. Until then, don’t.”</span> With his speech finished he sat back in his chair and contemplated the twins, waiting for their reactions</span>