Nadia "Now that is a pleasant surprise," Dalila sang, her dark eyes gleaming with sharp interest. "Much better now." I blinked weakly. My lips parted, then closed again when I found myself completely speechless. My ability to express myself seemed to have slipped out of reach. "You are Viktoria," I swallowed hard, trying to process what my eyes were seeing. "There was never a twin sister." Viktoria, or Viktor, or whatever the hell she wanted to be now, apparently, gave a half-smile. "You never wondered why we never appeared in the same place at the same time, Dyer?" she said with mischief. I shook my head, disbelieving, like someone realizing too late they had fallen for a magician’s trick. "You’ve always been able to change form?" I asked, unable to look away. I searched for some

