POV: Theo (experienced through Thelma's twin bond)

The twin bond opened wider than ever before, and I fell into Theo's existence. It was like drowning in an ocean made of consciousness. Suddenly I wasn't Thelma anymore. I was everywhere. Everyone. Everything.

A child laughed in Tokyo, and I felt joy burst through me. A grandmother took her last breath in Paris, and grief crushed my chest. Lovers kissed for the first time in New York, and desire flooded my veins. A soldier died in combat, and terror and resignation washed over me simultaneously. All of it. All at once. Forever.

"This is what I am now," Theo's voice came from...