Page 56 of Vicar
“He did it by possession in the beginning,”he said into her mind because she needed to remember too.“He took over fellow dragons and prompted your Múspellsheimr side to be more ruthless. Less like it was originally.”
“Then it wasn’t that bad at first?”she asked.
He was pleasantly surprised to see her fly up alongside him. Or, more specifically, this version of her. Because he still wanted to put her other self in her place. Not to the degree that he'd wanted to before but in her place regardless. Shehadtried to usurp him, after all.
“My other self,”she murmured, catching his thoughts which in turn affected her thoughts. Ones that started to morph. Change. As though him just thinking about her other side dragged it to the surface.
“Oh, no,”Jade warned. She and Thorulf had shifted and were right behind them.“Her other side is surfacing. I thought that wasn’t supposed to happen here?”
“Yet it has.”Trinity, fully Múspellsheimr now, swooped down after her tiny self.“So deal with it.”
While the tone of her inner voice was most certainly her Múspellsheimr half, it didn’t rile Vicar up as much as it had before. He didn’t even have the overwhelming need to put her in her place that he'd had moments before.
“Why do you suppose that is?”Thorulf asked him privately.
“It doesn’t matter.”
But it did. He was recalling just how much he’d cared for Trinity right along with his other half. Remembering a time when their two Múspellsheimr sides had gotten along much better. They hadn’t wanted to slice each other’s throats. Why was that, though? When precisely had this side, who he was now, first emerged? He supposed they would find out at some point.
When tiny Trinity released another wail of fear through the waterfall of fire her captor had just flown through, he shot after them only to witness another enlightening memory on the other side.
