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Oris Vale stood next to his sister Astra. Or so she thought. He gripped her shoulder tightly, turning her to face him. He winked and said, "I'd check the bathroom if I were you. Everything is about to change." He deadpanned. Oris turned away and flew off, shattering a window in his path. But, Oris can't fly, can he? Astra thought. "Way to be ominous." She laughed.

She might as well check the bathroom. Astra walked down a long hall, pictures of herself, her brother, and their friends hung up on the walls. After the Vale's parents died in a house fire, Oris, being eighteen, adopted Astra, who was fifteen. Now, almost two year later, Oris and his girlfriend, Kaia Lux, had stepped up as the parents Astra needed. She will be forever grateful to them for caring about her.

Many thoughts raced through Astra's mind as she crept up to the bathroom door. She stepped on something wet and sticky. Her hand nearing the door handle, her gut told her never to open this door. She looked down, seeing the blood seeping from the door and soaking her boots.

Without thinking, Astra threw the door open. The thought of this would have never occurred to her after just seeing Oris, not even two minutes ago. He was perfectly healthy and his usual cheery self. They had just finished watching their favorite movie, How to Train Your Dragon. She did not, for one second think that her brother wasn't the person next to her.

A bloody knife lie on the floor. Astra picked up the knife instinctively and dropped it the second she realized. She looked toward the tub and quickly drew back the shower curtain. There her brother was, laid out in the bathtub. Several stab wounds to his chest. Who was that with her all afternoon? Why would they have done this?  Why did I not feel that he wasn't here anymore? She could always feel him, their powers being the same. They could sense each other. Nikolai called them "the twin powers."

Astra felt a familiar pit in her stomach, her ergokinesis fueling up. She couldn't have an outburst again, she couldn't ruin the only home she has. She ran out into the hall, put her headphones in, and slid down the wall onto the floor. Her music helping to calm her mind and her powers.

She sat there in shock, until Kaia unlocked the front door and walked in. Astra looked up and it was as if a switch flicked on in her brain. A tearless sob escaping her lips. Kaia saw Astra in the hall. She ran to her, "Astra? What's wrong? What happened?" All Astra could muster up was, "Oris." And she pointed toward the bathroom.

Kaia saw the blood and ran, haltering in the doorway. After seeing what had been done, she joined Astra in her sobs. Kaia tried to use her power of manipulating blood, she tried to put Oris's blood back into his body. She tried to get his heart pumping again. But he was too far gone.

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