Zanele's words hit everyone present like sledgehamrs. The Sirens all ntioned at least once that they felt a sort of guidance that led to . It happened when I broke down, bitching about their lovers' replacents.
"I always found it odd, Honey. I usually don't open up to people, especially good-looking ones. But Jo, Jas, Liv, Robyn, and Aki felt familiar. Nostalgic even. Sigh, if only I had known then what a big mistake I was making; I would have left you all to the Brute."
"I know, right? I used to have the feeling only with Jas. But then sohow, I felt the sa closeness with everyone here! Even the pervert and the big-breasted cow! It's so amazing, right, Darling?"
"Please stop your futile attempts to attack my self-esteem, you nutjob. Still, I do understand what you all an. I struggle to bond with my allies and soldiers. You are the least offensive group, the only ones I feel comfortable with."
"That's probably because you creeped them all out, you pervert. For , Liv and Aki reminded of the older sisters at the orphanage, so I just followed them. Course that led to Possum, so I lucked out and picked correctly."
"As soone who grew up with hundreds of siblings, I concur with everyone. Even among those bound by blood, being open and trusting one another was not a given. It had to be earned. Beloved did really well in choosing you all as my sisters."
"Ara, you could be more truthful, you know, Liv? But I find it incredible that despite our origins, we all found our way to Shujin. The odds of it happening seem impossible. Even more so that we haven't murdered each other yet."
Aki's words caused the temperature in the room to turn cold. But the one who salvaged the situation was Jas.
My chocolate-skinned lover rejected Aki's words curtly: "That would never happen."
"Huh? Why do you think so, Jas?" her Italian sister asked in confusion.
"We are destined to belong to Husband. Just as I beca the reason he died and joined the Reapers. Everyone here has their lives tied to our {Kindred}. It would have been inevitable for us to fight it. The dreams only we see are the best proof."
Intrigued, I asked in curiosity, "Fate, huh? Everyone. You all said that the faces in your dreams looked exactly like , right? If the one in your dreams was soone else. Do you think you all would still end up with ?"
The girls all said it wouldn't, but sohow, I felt differently. It was impossible to know the future with certainty. But if you did, it would affect how soone acted. Knowing the past or the future would change their actions.
'I an, that was the entire premise of replaying a visual novel. The reason they are so good and satisfying to play is because of the differences between the routes.'
Visual novels were basically choose-your-own-adventure books in video ga format. One of the greatest pleasures of finishing one was comparing the endings. They were vastly different.
While it gave one pleasure to see that your decisions led to a good outco, that was only half of the fun. Knowing the worst future in a branching story only doubled the joy of achieving the best outco.
Sohow I began to wonder. The Sirens said the dreams began after the Enlistnt. And, much like dating, I was sure that my nightly visits to their dreams sparked their interest in .
At the ti, we didn't dig much into it. But I mulled over it for a while.
As soone who saw the future and had imnse intellect, Jas saw things we could not.
I often saw brainy characters in pop culture obsess over numbers and probabilities. A common trope was that such a character could see the world's truth and predict the future. I had long believed that maybe Jas was the sa.
Like those who believed in the mysticism of witch doctors and such. And funnily enough, she gained {Insight}. It gave her access to the Akashic records, otherwise known as the secrets of the world.
And the thing we chalked up to happenstance ca back to bite us in the worst way possible. Zanele then continued sharing what she knew.
"From the ones I spoke to, they all were… for a lack of a better word, mad. The Sins were all so infatuated with the Successor that they loved him without reason or cause. A few told it was because of the dream they kept seeing.
"Supposedly, just like you said, Successor, the Sins and their Successors shared a previous life together. Nevertheless, they all said that the lives ended in tragedy. Which was why I found it odd that they were infatuated with the Successors given their past romances."
"Nelle, did the cunts say what the nas of the Successors and the Sins were in their lives?"
"I am sorry, they did, but at that ti I didn't pay attention. It was before the internet, so I only nodded my head to act politely."
Annoyed, I called my trusty AI.
'Exa.'
[I have scanned her mories, the ones she rembers. I compared them to all known mythologies. Of the seventeen she heard, none of them had past lives that were from the sa mythologies as yours.]
Sohow, I felt my girls all collectively sigh in relief. I could understand why. It would not help to learn that forr sins who had the sa mories as my girls did all went insane.
'Still, if the Successors used the doors and changed, why did the Sins do so as well?'
The girls didn't ntion anything like my door room. But as I myself kept so things hidden, it was not farfetched for the Sirens to do the sa. An uncomfortable silence lingered in the air. After a few monts, Bella restarted the discussion.
"Zanele, you kept saying that each Successor was powerful, but you have yet to share how. What did they do? What were they capable of? What separated them from other Reapers?"
"Oh, that, you would have to forgive . Although I t five Successors, I only had friendly relations with two of them. Sibusiso Ncube, a Successor from Zimbabwe in the 1700s, and Omar Farid, from Egypt in the 1850s.
"Of the two, I only saw Sibusiso in combat. But all five of the Successors were famous personalities. Tales of their exploits were the equivalent of the hottest gossip. Practically every facet of their lives was talked about."
Lilly nodded as she leaned on while intertwining our fingers.
"I am guessing that is how you learned of the upheaval each Successor achieved?"
"Yes, that is correct. As for Sibusiso, he was a close friend; I called him Sibu. I practically grew up with him. Since he was a child, he dread of freeing Africa from demons. He didn't succeed, but he did manage to create a powerful force that had amazing potential."
Bella interjected, "Wait, how can that be? If this man did such a thing to a land that has a Revenant, wouldn't he co into conflict with the Majesty? Or are you telling that the Immortal of that period just let Sibu be?"
Zanele thought for a bit before she replied.
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