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Chapter 30: Unwanted Reunion

She was in a rusted orange cave. It was closed of, its only way out was through a bright green curtain. The curtain had a pillar on each side of it. The curtain seemed to glow with the light of a hundred suns.
Senkina stepped towards the curtain. She only stopped when someone came out of the curtain. Her curly purple hair was down and framed her face. She lovingly looked at Senkina.
That look quickly turned to shock. "What are you doing here?" Lyllan asked, worry dropped from her lips, "Did something happen in the village?"
"No, nothing happened in the village." Senkina reassured her, "I'm here because of something that I just need to do. So I'm going to spit it out before you can interrupt me. I'm switching places with you."
Lyllan looked at her. Shock mixed with worry. "No. You don't have to trade places with me." Lyllan began to argue, "I've lived for thousands of cycles."
"NO!" Senkina screamed, "What you did here wasn't living. It was surviving. What I did on earth on earth was survive. Lyllan, you haven't lived a day in your life. I've lived for however long I've been here. Now I'm giving you the opportunity to not only live but to go home."
Lyllan's expression didn't change. She wasn't convinced. "But what about your family on earth? Won't they miss you?"
Senkina looked at her. "My family on earth won't miss me. They will always have me. And besides this place gave me the best family that I could ever have. I have two brothers and two sisters here." Senkina explained.
"Senkina," Lyllan began, "I refuse to switch."
Senkina gave her a tight hug. Tears streaming down both of their faces. "You don't get to choose." Senkina spat out.
Senkina felt the pulling of the switch. She turned to Lyllan. "Please tell Leon Oskaur and Johnson that I love them and nothing is their fault. And understand nothing is your fault this was completely my decision. Lastly, if you ever meet my sister. Please tell her that she was best person I could have ever had in my life." Senkina spewing her last words.
Senkina felt a feeling of peace before she was gone.
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I woke up. I was in the bed at the infirmary. I reached my hand up to my head. Wait a minute. I have a body. What the —
Suddenly a upset Lyllan came bursting through the door. She looked directly at me.
"Who are you?" Lyllan screamed. Leon Oskaur woke up and looked at Lyllan with shock and confusion.
"How are you here?" Leon Oskaur asked.
Lyllan looked at him and her eyes softened a bit. She then pointed angrily at me. "Why don't you ask her?" Lyllan barked.
Leon Oskaur looked at me confused. I managed to squeak out, "Well what happened is that Senkina used a switching spell to trade her life for Lyllan's."
Leon Oskaur seemed more confused by my revelation. "So, who are you?" He asked, wanting to know what was going on.
"Well I'm Senkina's twin sister..." I began. Unfortunately, I was interrupted by Lyllan.
"Senkina doesn't have a twin."
I began to explain myself when Lyllan put her hand up. I thought it was rude but then I remembered that she switched places with Senkina. Lyllan then turned to Leon Oskaur.
"Wake up everyone and meet me in the center." Lyllan commanded. Leon Oskaur stood up and began to wake everyone up.
In a couple minutes, everyone was up and in the center of the village. Everyone gasped when they saw Lyllan. They whispered amongst themselves.
"How is she here?" One whispered sweet.
"This is madness." Another snapped.
"Was she faking it?" Yet another snipped.
"Now I know you all have questions. I will answer them later but I have some urgent business to conduct." Lyllan shouted to the crowd, they all hushed immediately. "I have discovered a mole among us. I will give the mole a chance to give themselves up or they will face serious consequences."
Everyone looked at each other, silently accusing each other. Eventually a voice piped up.
"I know who the mole could be."
Lyllan gestured for the voice to step forward. The voice was connected to Tarte. "Who do you think it could be?" Lyllan sweetly asked.
Tarte looked dead into the crowd and pointed to a girl with her white hair braided into a flower crown. Jickallyn looked shocked.
"How could I be the mole?" Jickallyn argued, "I was imprisoned too."
"Simple," Tarte began, "you were not with us when we escaped the castle the first time. Maybe you were helping Our Leader with his plan. And Senkina said she saw you on stage with Our Leader."
Jickallyn's face turned red with rage. "I didn't escape with you because I was put elsewhere. It was because I had escaped before" Jickallyn ripped into him, "and besides Senkina saw my copy on stage."
Lyllan wasn't convinced. "Then do tell. How did Johnson get you out of your containment unit?" Lyllan asked, almost too sweetly.
"That is simple he used a stone to rip through the wires that were on the containment unit. This helped release me and then we escaped together." Jickallyn explained smugly, "While we escaped, Johnson got electrocuted. That's why he didn't escape with us."
Lyllan smiles sweetly. "Just one more question. This is just to clarify something." Lyllan sweetly responded, her twistedly sweet smile filling her face. "How many times did we escape?"
Jickallyn laughed for a moment then answered snobbishly, "We only escaped once."
Lyllan turned to me and whispered, "She's definitely the mole. Could you communicate that to a person that can pin her?"
I was a little shocked. Then I remembered she had Senkina's powers. So I mentally told Satne to pin her.
He had some hesitation, but just shrugged his shoulders and tackled her. Leon Oskaur was very taken aback and ran to help Jickallyn, but I stopped him.
"She is the mole, Leon Oskaur." I told him. He looked heartbroken at first but then determined.
"Guess it's time to see what the mole knows." Leon Oskaur started coldly.