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Chapter 1: Gemini

The rain was still sloshing down over the sides of the umbrella when Sigma made it to an inn. The sign hanging on the outside said The Grazing Goat. Thinking that it would at least afford some shelter from the elements, Sigma walked inside and over to the bar that served as both the reception desk and the place to pick up a drink and some food.

She felt a compulsion to avoid eyes of the scattered few that remained in the bar, so she moved away from the bar area and went to sit next to the fire. She sat down in a well worn armchair. It took a moment for her to realize that she was actually comfortable. Sigma had walked through the rain for hours on end. She felt her muscles relax and her shoulders slump as she watched the flames dance and move as though they were alive. Sigma felt her mind haze over as weariness set in and she began to doze, her eyelids lowering and her body slouching into the chair as she lost consciousness.

Seconds past and an electric jolt went through her body and all she saw was blackness on the other side.

Adria awoke to find she was somewhere far different from where she had fallen asleep, if you could call the cold table that served as a bed and prison much of a place to rest. She looked around and saw that she was in what appeared to be a tavern. The fire was bright and cheery while the people that were taking in its faint heat were far from that warm emotion. One man looked like he was a drowned rat, while another was just barely keeping his clothes from dripping onto the floor. She seemed to be only marginally better off. Her feet were wet and her cape was soaked to just below her waist.

Adria had a moment of shocked fear. There on her hand was something she recognized but had never seen from this angle. On her right hand was a scar that Sigma had gotten when they were still kids. The two had been out playing and had found a nice pile of rocks that had been hit by plows and other things in the process of planting. The girls had climbed the pile trying to be queen of the hill and Sigma had cut herself. The cut had formed a scar and the girls had always said that that one mark was the way to ultimately tell them apart, Sigma the clumsy and Adria the nimble. Now, it looked like that had all changed. If it had in the way that that monster had said he would change them then she was not inside her own body, but her sister's.

Adria shifted, the shock having pulled her into a state of horror, disgust, and mind numbing terror. The monster had actually done what he had told them he would and now she was in Sig's body. "All because we had the stupidity to be interested in alkahestry. Damn it all!" she cursed herself, her sister, and the man that had done this to them. She cradled her head in her hands as tears of anger and fear fell in rivers from her eyes. That is when she saw the glint of metal. There on her, no her sister's, forearm was a gold gauntlet like piece of metal work. The metal caught the light and reflected a blood red color so much like the material that had been sacrificed to make it. The gauntlet began at her index finger with a large band that encircled her finger. From that delicate chains ground the ring to a bracelet/bangle on her wrist. More chains connected that part to an armband. The whole piece was connected and was enscribed with symbols, one of which was the sign of eternity only this had the figure of a snake as it's loops.

"An ouroboros," she thought, her mind going to the symbol that the man had worn on a band around his arm. "This is not good, not good at all," she murmured to herself.

"You're right there little lady," a man across from her in a similar armchair said. "The weather has taken a dreadful turn. Maybe you should stay the night."

Adria thought and reached in her pocket. She found a large sum of money there. "Alright," she said, "I will take your advice on that." She threw in her best smile, making him pale a few shades as the emotions she held in tight control shone out through her toothy expression.

Sorry it isn't much but my mind is kinda failing me right now. Finals and papers are really hitting me hard. More next time.