me since the exam that he's suddenly able to flicker back to the dark side. That's not normal."
"What if he's bipolar?" Jax brought it up. "Or has a side that's evil or something."
I felt like he was trying to give the potential example of himself and that dark side of him that I hadn't seen since semester five, but I kept any questions I had to myself.
"I don't think so." Connor shook his head. "If someone is bipolar, the emotions that stem from both sides of their personalities would reside in them. Imagine that one side is bubbly and happy while the other side is angry. Both emotions would be present, even if one is dominant. Multiple personalities are no different. In Elijah's case, it just doesn't make sense. He doesn't have that dual essence. It's always one meeting he's on our side, the next meeting he's fighting against us. Why?"
We were all silent as I thought about it, and suddenly it clicked.
"Elijah's a twin."
Everyone turned to me as I tried to process it. "Wouldn't that make sense?" I suggested. "Yes, Elijah was the jealous type, and I wouldn't be surprised if he'd been the one to start the rumors and such to ruin my reputation around school, but Elijah has never given me the vibes of being able to easily kill someone. His dad is an alcoholic and was very abusive to the point that he'd come and stay with me during the night so he wouldn't have to deal with his dad's fury. If he really wanted to kill, why didn't he do so with his dad who made his life a living hell a lot of the time? He also wouldn't have helped when Elisha hit me with the car. He cooperated with the police, and there's an entire report about his testimony on the whole thing. Why would he testify against Elisha if they're on the same side?"
"You seriously think he's a twin?" Kaito asked.
"It would make sense," I noted. "Connor has a point about the emotional aspect. I wouldn't be able to confirm that because I've never really used my mimic gift to try and figure out his emotions when he's been present, but if what he's saying is accurate, we could be dealing with two people or a doppelganger."
"It may make sense," Jax mumbled. "I mean, we were all reincarnated, right? What if instead of Elijah or Hamilton, he was reincarnated as twins?"
"That could be possible, but why wouldn't we know about it? Especially Brianne," Kaito reasoned. "She was his best friend. She would have known that Elijah is a twin."
"Ya but maybe it's the same reason that Bri didn't know she had a twin sister in another universe," Connor acknowledged.
That left all of us silent before we turned our attention to Professor Phoenix, who'd been watching us in amusement.
"Bingo," she replied and nodded in Connor's direction. "Bonus points for Connor."
"He cheated," Finnick whined. "I was thinking that!"
"Sure, sure," Connor brushed it away but his wide smile told me he totally just stole that thought.
"But are Brianne and Alice Blaze twins?" Kaito inquired. "Like sure, they both have red hair."
"Orange with gold highlights," I corrected.
"Sure," Kaito brushed it off which made me pout. He smirked and carried on, "They look alike sure, but she's more tanned and their auras are different. If they were twins, their auras would be similar like Aki and Ako, or Kiyo and Koyo. Aki’s and Ako’s auras are the same even if they seem more connected personality-wise than Koyo and Kiyo."
"That's true," Jax admitted.
We were silent once again and Professor Phoenix giggled. "Can I explain?"
"Yes please," we replied and sat at attention as Professor Phoenix uncrossed her arms to start explaining.
"Brianne and Alice are indeed twins, but this is an extremely rare case," she began and lifted her hand to create two orbs of magic. One was orange and the other was gold.
"Brianne was obviously born a twin in her past life, and we concluded that both twin sides of her came together when she was reborn in this world."
The two orbs joined into one, mixing together to display an orb of golden orange.
"You all may not know this, but Brianne's mother is also a twin. They don't look as similar to one another, but that's due to universal circumstances."
"Universal circumstances?" Jax asked.
"And Mom's a twin?!" I gasped.
"Twins run through your family's blood," Professor Phoenix answered first. "It's why she was chosen to give birth to you. As for