Achilles blinked rapidly as he tried to adjust to the bright light. Finally as everything came into focus he found himself in a large white room. He turned around slowly and his eyes landed on his sister. "Where am I?" he asked as he examined the room. The room was bare with a door in each of the four walls.
"Where do you think you are?" Aurora asked. "What's the last thing you remember?"
Achilles closed his eyes and he was assaulted with memories of the recent events the last memory being Aurora's red glowing eyes. He chuckled, opened his eyes and looked at the ceiling but found the open sky the same with the floor. "We're in my mind."
They had always been told that their minds were complex. When they were born, their mother said that she was always confused because she couldn't distinguish between their minds. As they grew up they discovered that they could link their conscious minds together but a wall always surrounded their subconscious mind. The wall grew stronger if they were fighting against each other and even their conscious minds were closed off from one another. With the power to meld their bodies together, they understood the need to keep their minds separate but they didn't understand just how complex their mind link was. Not until she nearly died.
They were on the cliff at the cave when Aurora fell into the ocean and drowned. When she was on the brink of death the walls fell away and both their conscious and subconscious were open to each other. Everything was heightened their senses, their emotions. For those few minutes it was as if they were sharing one mind. They felt closer than they ever had and it made them feel as if they were not alone in the world.
From then on, they tried to recreate those events so that they could feel what they felt again. The closest they got was the game they played. Flying as high as they could before plummeting to the ground and for those few seconds they felt incredible, they felt closer but it was not enough. The wall was still there separating them. It would weaken but it would still be there. The only way it would disappear completely was if one of them was dying.
"How did you know?"
"That you wanted to trick me. That you wanted me to knock you out and then trick me into believing I changed your mind?" Aurora asked. Achilles nodded and she walked closer to him her hands clasped in front of her. "When you went to the batcave even though you knew about this island and that Lex was going to be here. You wanted Batman to see that you were going after Lex and you wanted him to tell me after a certain amount of time had passed. You wanted me to think that you were making mistakes so that I wouldn't be suspicious and I would come here and overpower you when in reality you would still be the same."
"You have to admit, it was a good plan." Achilles said smiling. "So, what happens now?"
"Now we help you, so pick a door." Aurora swept her hand indicating the doors in the room.
"Why don't you choose one yourself?"
"Because your subconscious mind may be open to me but you are still fighting me. I don't want to walk into a psychic minefield so, after you." She watched as he turned and walked towards the door behind him. His arm reached for it and stopped in midair as her eyes glowed. She knew the path they had to take but she had to trick his mind into thinking that it was his choice or it would have been even more dangerous. He turned and walked towards the door on his right and opened the door. The door swung open and they were engulfed in bright light before everything went dark.
