Twenty-Six Years Ago
I always thought we would be together for always. Why wouldn’t we? We came into this world together, a fate only a few of the lucky can get. Everything thereafter we did together. It started to change when I went from walking to dancing while she chose swordplay. When I learned to sing and she to yell. Once identical beings that never left each other’s side now had subtle differences. I was skinny with flawless skin and long silky hair. She was toned with muscle and short hair for convenience. My nose straight while hers had a slight crook now from being broken a couple of times. By the time we were eighteen we were two separate beings, no longer as identical as we used to be.
Fate decided that we were to also have quite the different paths. I was mated to one of th
