Prologue
Amethyst Paranora-Baroda could see ghosts.
They were all over her house, all along the streets.
Pearl Paranora-Baroda could see souls.
But only the ones in people's bodies.
The glowed green if they were good, kind souls. They glowed red if they were evil, bad souls.
Pearl was very good at hiding this power…Amethyst wasn't.
Every time Amethyst saw an evil, ugly, zombie-ish ghost, she would double over and begin crying hard. She was always being sent to the nurse's office…but that made it worse.
And worst of all, most of the ghosts knew about her secret crush on her twin sister. They would call it sick, evil, and disgusting.
Even though Amethyst thought the same of them.
Pearl would never get scared of people's souls, so it was easy to hide. Especially since they didn't have a psychopathic look to them. They were just solid colored glowing molds of the people they inhabited, and they didn't talk and they didn't look like zombies. She was the lucky twin.
Pearl always felt bad for her sister and came to help Amethyst feel better whenever she was sent to the nurse's office. Even though her teachers thought that this was a lame excuse to get out of class at first, they saw Amethyst crying once and knew that they had to send Pearl to calm her down.
Amethyst's and Pearl's parents, however, were powerless. They couldn't see ghosts or souls or anything of the sort. They had no idea how these powers came to be, and they had no idea what to do whenever Amethyst had one of her fits. So Pearl was the only one in the entire Paranora-Baroda family that understood. She was the only one that could help.