"It will be easy for you with your level of Talent," I added."But we don't know anything about Magic," Lesia protested."Well, someone knew Magic. I fo...nd the spell to prevent getting pregnant on both of you the first night here," I told them."It's no wonder that we never got pregnant from all of the times that the master used us, but who could have done that to us?" Laura asked."Someone who knew you cast that spell on you. It is one of the earliest spells that girls learn when studying Magic,". I stared at her in horror. My sister was dead. Did my father know this would happen? He had visited the Oracle of the Sand. What deal had he made with this cruel being?“You Throwia-damned bitch!” I roared. “I’ll—”“Kurtis,” Pyrriah gasped.The sand stopped attacking the harem. My women all collapsed to their knees, no longer being ripped apart. The pain vanished from me as my twin sister turned and rose, her blue hair sweeping about her shoulders.Blue hair? The same shade as Mother’s?Pyrriah. I looked up at him as he ran his fingers through my hair. “baby I whispered to him I need to get a shower so I took his hand and we walked into the bathroom I didn’t turn any of the lights and let the low glow from the other room permeate into the bathroom I turned around and slipped him out of is robe and slid his beautiful boxers off. We stepped into the shower and the hot water pouring down over us felt fantastic I grabbed the wash cloth suds it up with soap and proceeded to wash him down. He didn't like what he was seeing.He took a drag on his cigarette (how long had it been since he'd given them up? Eight years? More?) and winced just a little at the acrid, hot smoke as it tore through the sensitive membranes of his throat. To soothe the burn, he took a long pull from the bottle of beer in his other hand. He held the bottle by the neck, as if throttling it, and just tilted it up so the cold amber liquid could flow onto the back of his tongue and wash away the burn. Skyline City.