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tell him again about addressing Brennus as a “walking corpse.”
    Zephyr grunts when I finish. Looking at Reed, he says, “Buns should be here any minute. I didn’t wait for her after Evie’s clone ran into me. Buns tried to tell me that it was definitely not Evie’s soul, but you felt it too, didn’t you?” Zephyr asks Reed and he nods. “I have never felt that way. I did not enjoy it.”
    “Sorry, Zee, I was freaked,” I say, looking down at my feet.
    Using his finger, Zephyr lifts my chin up so he can see my eyes. “Yes, and now I finally know what ‘freaked’ means,” Zephyr replies. “You have more courage than I thought.”
    “Sweetie!” Buns calls out right before she lands outside the doorway of our room. Her golden butterfly wings float behind her with effortless grace as she strides into the room. Coming to me, she embraces me, squeezing me briefly. “That’s a killa new trick you came up with,” she says.
    “Thanks, Buns,” I reply, seeing that she is trying to make me feel like less of a freak than I feel right now. “It just happened, I wasn’t even trying.”
    “Well, it’s a very stellar party trick. You can clone yourself and then we can make everyone guess which one is the real Evie,” Buns says, smiling into my eyes with her cornflower-blue ones as she brushes a stray hair back from my face. “Can you do it again now? Can you send one to me?”
    “I don’t know,” I waver, biting my lower lip and looking uncertainly at Reed who is watching me. He nods to me in encouragement.
    “Try,” Reed says.
    Nodding slowly, I close my eyes, breathing in deeply. Now that Brennus is coming, this may be my last chance to tell each of them what they mean to me. My heart speeds up as I allow thoughts of Brennus to create in me a sense of urgency, like I had felt when this first happened. Thinking of Buns, of the love I have for her, I begin to feel like I’m spinning, caught in a centrifuge. Opening my eyes, I sway again. Trying to keep my balance, I find it’s impossible and I have to go down on one knee again so I won’t fall down. A tremor jolts through me, causing a sense of lightness to expand within my body. Light is pushing its way out of me as my form is separating from itself. Seeing my likeness in front of me, it turns and rockets towards Buns, running right into her and disappearing in an instant.
    I have no time to gauge her reaction to it because another shockwave hits me, causing another image of me to spill out. This one runs towards Zee, disappearing into him. Concentrating now on all the love and desire that I have for Reed, a pulsing heat, like fire, erupts within me as the light from me grows more intense. A brightly lit image of me bursts forth from my body and it turns immediately towards Reed. Losing the dizziness that drove me to my knee, I watch as my clone bolts to Reed, enveloping him in its fiery light before it vanishes within him. He closes his eyes as his perfect face transforms from a concerned expression to one of bliss. Slowly, he opens his eyes again and the deepest desire smolders within their dark green depths.
    “Sweetie, I was wrong…that’s not a party trick,” Buns says as she staggers to the bed to sit on it. “That’s—I can smell you!” she remarks as her eyes widen and she pulls her honey-color hair to her nose, breathing in. She speaks to me in her musical language before she smiles and says, “That was like seeing love through another’s eyes. I will not forget it.”
    “Dominion,” Zephyr says, not taking his eyes off of me. He has an awed expression on his face that I have seen only one other time and that was right before I managed to cut his arm with my dagger while sparring with him.
    “We need to get them here now,” Reed finishes for him, but he’s not looking at Zee, he’s looking at me with that same expression of bliss still plastered to his face. “I will make the arrangements while you make the arrangements to get