Chapter 474

We were all just amazed watching them. The room seemed speechless listening to the strange song. As the first fed, the second continued to sing and call out. When we switched them the first sang as the second took her first meal.

“What are their names?” Kein asked me as the first girl finally settled down in his arms.

I watched the tiny girl nursing sleepily on my chest. She was keeping tabs on me with half lidded green eyes. The second of the twins had spoken a few words to me, outside of her melody. I had heard conviction in her voice. She needed a strong name, as did her sister.

The small build and sweet voice could fool you, but I’d seen the power these girls carried. They weren’t going to be simple singers, content to create beautiful things. From nearly the moment of their birth they’d proved they were willing and ready to fight.

Long ago, in another life, I had looked at baby names with my cousin in a large book. At the time she’d been compiling boy an