They Sold Me to the Ruined General, Now His Ghost Won't Let Go novel · Chapter 13 of 24
Chapter 13: The Missing Half
"Paired," the Hall Master said, "is a word I have used twice in fifty years."
She did not look at either of them.
She looked at the screen, where the two waves lay on top of each other.
"The last pair were twin sisters, and they were born that way."
"We're not twins," Idris said.
"I noticed." She turned a dial. "A core comes in one piece."
She tapped the green line with its crack.
"When it tears, it leaves a hollow in the shape of what went missing. The missing piece keeps that shape wherever it lands, and it keeps its clock too."
"Its clock?" said Dain.
It was his own voice, rough and whole.
The shade had gone back into the body the moment the coils dimmed.
Dain sat upright in the chair with his big hands on his knees.
"Every core records the hour it was last broken," the Hall Master told him. "Yours broke two years and two months ago."
She pulled a file across the desk.
"I have the Fleet's log for Kesh and your aide's monthly readings. They agree to the minute."
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