<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ccff99">The twins were both silent for a while, neither touching their food or even looking at each other until the end when both looked up simultaneously, directly at their twin, Ayla chewing her lip.</span><br/><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ffcc">Alexi was the one to speak however. </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4dffa6">“Were it anyone but Ayla, yes.”</span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ffcc"> he said softly, as if something unspoken had passed between them. </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4dffa6">“But you’d either have to kill us both, or lock the other in the workroom until it was done, however necessary it was… Logic… would not prevail there…”</span>