Chapter 155

Sifah blinked rapidly, straightening up. The two again wore their loose clothes and dark veils, jingling chains, gold earrings and rings, expensive shoes, with all the Muslim opulence of their status. She looked at the girl with a distracted air, and then showed me her delicate fangs in an apologetic smile.

“She’s a little worried. It wasn’t part of our plans for you to see it, but there wasn’t much else to do. It didn’t turn out well,” the princess told me, in a secretive murmur. “She has a twin brother. We believe that this is why she has the ability to change, because they were one at the beginning of her life. The girl kept that small part of him.”

I frowned, curious. Since I was talking—

“Are there other women capable of change in your family?”

“I only know Zaira. If there are others, they are hidden very well.”

Sifah was wrong with her twin theory. For starters, an egg dividing into two fetuses always results in identical twins of the same sex, no