Chapter 33
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Sephy glanced at Lenny.
‘It’s not enough,’ Lenny said. ‘We have the binding spell, but we don’t have the power to make it work when we’re all fractured this way. And Lucine is failing fast, she will be lucky to last another twenty-four hours.’
Sephy blinked back a tear and nodded. ‘I know and it never gets any easier. I just wish it was different.’
Lenny reached out and took hold of her sister’s hands. ‘I know, it’s getting harder each time.’
Sephy clenched her hand tight. ‘We should begin our preparations; I’ve gathered most of the things we need over the last six months, but Dora is the main ingredient. I wonder if she’s found the journal yet.’ She stopped for a moment. ‘Are you ready for this to be your last life?’ she asked thoughtfully.
Lenny shrugged. ‘Would that be such a bad thing? Are you not a little jaded with the whole live a life, die, then come back and live another life with the same ending? I know I’m finding it a little repetitive. It wouldn’t be so bad if we didn’t live in fear most of the time and just got to enjoy our time together as a family, like we did so many moons ago.’
‘I don’t know, I find it kind of comforting knowing that when I die it’s not final. That I’ll be back, and we will all be reunited with each other.’
Lenny reached out and stroked Sephy’s cheek. ‘You always were a soppy soul.’
‘And you never used to be so tough.’
‘We’ve been through a lot. Things change but I’m glad that you’re always the same Seraphina English every time we reunite, I wouldn’t have you any other way. But we need to do this for Dora. For her to finally live, love, have children. What if in reliving, we’re denying our family from carrying on?’
Sephy reached out and squeezed her sister’s hand. She knew deep down inside her heart that the time was finally here.