Chapter 14: Four of Us

Brigid did not speak on the walk back.

She climbed the tower stair ahead of him, shut her door, and set the lamp on the shelf.

"I want to ask something," she said. "Of both of you."

"Ask," Wes said.

"Not through his head, Sera. With the mouth, so I can see who answers."

There was a long silence in Wes's skull.

"She means it," Wes said quietly.

"I know she does." Sera's voice was thin. "Wes, I haven't had a body of my own for fourteen months."

"Then take this one."

"Then I'm taking it tonight."

"It's yours. I just borrowed it."

He called the heat, and it came up at once, because Brigid was standing in front of him with her sleeves pushed up and her eyes steady.

The braid dropped over his shoulder.

Then something stepped forward inside him, and Wes slid back into a quiet seat behind the eyes.

He could still see and feel everything, but the hands were not his to move.

Sera lifted them, looked at them, and turned them over in the lamplight.

"Oh," she said aloud.

It was her own voice, low and unsteady, and it came out of Wren's mouth.

Brigid crossed the room and stopped an arm's length away.

"Hello," she said. "I am Brigid Oakes."

"Sera Marsh." A short laugh. "You've been very kind to my face."

"It is a good face."

Sera put a hand to Brigid's cheek.

Brigid closed her eyes.

Sera kissed her.

It was a clumsy kiss at first, careful, with a shake in it, and Wes felt the shake run down his own arms.

Then Brigid pulled her in by the belt, and it stopped being careful.

Sera's mouth opened under Brigid's.

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