Junie grabbed his sister’s hand and pulled her towards the cliff edge. She walked shakily in his direction, but their eyes met and she nodded. She was ready. Turning their gaze to the bottom of the ravine, they both stepped off into the abyss.

…

Cassie and Junie had always known they were special.

People usually wrote off their unique behavior as part of the much fabled twin connection. As many twins do, Junie and Cassie shared many of the same interests and abilities. They knew things about each other that normal people just didn’t know. But Cassie and Junie were different from other twins.

They didn’t just share interests and abilities. Cassie and Junie shared something else that made them very unique.

The twins do not recall their birth or childhood, but somewhere, in a large folder, inside of a confidential and locked file cabinet, an interested person would learn that Cassie and Junie were found, three days old, in a car parked in a hospital parking lot. The car happened to belong to a young woman who was visiting her mother in the hospital, and had carelessly left the door unlocked; young people usually do these things, but luckily for her, in this instance, nothing was stolen besides the peace and quiet within the vehicle.

Upon returning to her car, the young woman found two screaming, but healthy, twins in the back seat.

These little orphans began life in an orphanage, but were quickly adopted. The paperwork inside this large folder would also reveal that these two little ones didn’t remain in their adopted home for long.

Soon after the adoption, the authorities found the two, then one year old, children in an alleyway behind the local Burger King. The adoptive parents were taken into custody, hysterical and bewildered. They swore they had routinely put the babies to bed safely in their cribs, but there was no evidence for or against their statement; the babies returned to the care of the orphanage.

This pattern continued in three more adoptive homes, each time the children were found in odd locations, unsupervised.

Today, Junie knew he was ready, and Cassie trusted him. They had failed before, but they would not fail now.

Atop the cliff, they could see the whole city. A wretched city that had only brought them pain and misfortune. They had no family and no friends; they were alone. But after today, they wouldn’t be any longer.

Junie grabbed his sister’s hand and pulled her towards the cliff edge. She walked shakily in his direction, but their eyes met and she nodded. She was ready. Turning their gaze to the bottom of the ravine, they both stepped off into the abyss.

The wind hit their faces as they fell, open eyes stinging.

They watched as the world grew thin, and they slipped into the thin veil of transmission. Then, darkness.

...

Junie opened his eyes, a hazy fog covered his vision and adjusted in his wakefulness. The figure before him caused his heart to beat quickly, and he was filled with joy. He had done it!

She was beautiful; everything he had ever dreamed of.

Her skin was a soft blue, one large and translucent eye blinked glowingly from the center of her forehead. The two small openings on either side of her face spread thin as she smiled down at him. He was home, finally.

Her babies had found their way back home.