I met a girl named Jade yesterday in the park. She killed a pretty white swallow, and when I saw it, I cried. It was strange, because she didn't understand why I would cry, she said that she had to kill the birds there, because they might be messengers for some bad people that are after her and her twin brother.
I don't know if I like this Jade girl, it seems so cruel to kill innocent creatures like that. And she asked me some questions that made me blush and want to hide. But her twin brother, Obsidian, reminds me of Miah in a way, and besides she promised me that she and her brother would look after me because Miah isn't here any more and I am too weak to take care of myself now.

Nehemiah. My twin.
We were floating in the water, when the sun had gone away, so that it wouldn't burn my skin. Nehemiah wanted to go sooner, but he waited, because he knew that I wasn't as strong as he. He was never as colorless. He would tease me for being so neat and so pale, and I would smile. My only smiles were for Nehemiah.
I remember seeing his face floating under the water, his mouth was open and the black water was filling him. Drowned, where no one could see us. I couldn't pull him from the water. Nehemiah was always the one to help me do the things I couldn't do on my own. He pushed me toward the raft, the last thing he could do. Drowned. All my smiles, drowned. My love, into the black water.