<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ccff99">Ayla blinked, staring at Alexi. His mind was a whirlwind of thoughts, a raging storm as though he were trying to catch pieces of a puzzle floating in the wind and making them all stick together. For once in her life she couldn’t make heads or tails of what was going on inside that head of his. Turning her attention to the notes, she started reading, even as Alexi started to talk.</span><br/><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ffcc">Alexi looked up at Lucian, grateful he was there and leaning against him.</span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4dffa6"> “These were even more cryptic. There was a cypher on it. I picked up on it right away because it's one she used in other places. I actually have the Workbook in which she started using it, came up with it, and fine tuned it.” </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ffcc">he started, watching his sister’s face carefully. </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4dffa6">“The notes are something she worked on with another mage… though their name isn’t mentioned at all, anywhere in them, and the handwriting is all hers. It's a combination of Divination and Enchantment. But the two of them succeeded at what they were trying to do, and put it into action.” </span><br/><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#a6ff4d">“On us. Before we were even born.”</span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ccff99"> there was almost a twinge of anger in her voice as she looked up at the two of them from where she sat on the floor. </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#a6ff4d">“And they weren’t able to complete it. Only create the initial connection.”</span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ccff99"> it's why they were unique with their bond. It wasn’t natural, their ability to read eachother’s minds. They’d been bound together somehow in the womb. Still there was more to it than that, as she kept reading through Alexi’s annoyingly perfect handwriting.</span>