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gladly followed Turner to his spot. Even though she had visited Tricity many times, people still watched her in awe. Turner had prepared a picnic, including blankets for the chilly early evening air.
    Arianna lay on the blanket, staring into the dusk sky. The city slowly began to turn on lights and twinkle as night approached. Arianna preferred the starry sky to the twinkling world beneath them. Their overlook was the best view in the city, and the most isolated. This was where Turner came to think. The first time he brought Arianna to his spot was almost a year ago when he helped her run away from the Randolph estate. As soon as they arrived this night, Turner gave her the gift he had brought with them. She held the delicate necklace in her hand and fingered the pendent from the present Turner had given her.
    “ It really wasn’t just me,” Turner admitted from next to her on the ground. He preferred to watch the city below. “Actually, all that was me was the idea. Devin had to find them.”
    Arianna stared at the two twisting circles, her parent ’s wedding bands. “It reminds me of me,” she replied quietly. The gold slipped over her fingers. Neither ring had any stones in it, they were just plain gold bands of different width. Her mother had the smaller one as hers and her father the thicker one.
    “It’s you.” Turner reached over and traced the two loops. “You’re both of them. I’m sorry you never got to know them. Even though my mom is gone, I still at least have some memories of her.”
    “ Why do you think I can be both?” she asked, pushing the sadness away of the gaping hole that was left by her parents’ death. She didn’t have any memories of them and only a few of her grandfather now. Every family member close to her in her life, beyond Gabriel, had died long before she could ever get to know them.
    “ You know the thinking part isn’t the best for me,” Turner replied, putting his hands through his hair. “I’m more of an action sort of guy.” Arianna smiled. That was completely true, but for Turner to admit it was a big step.
    “ Has anyone else ever tried?” Arianna asked.
    “ Tried action?” he asked. “I can demonstrate.” He leaned over closer to her.
    “ Not action,” she laughed, pushing him back. “Has anyone else ever tried to have a child between two different night human races?”
    “ Oh yeah, tons of people, especially when they clans got along better. When two unlike night human have a baby, it always ends up being one or the other. Never both. You’re the only one that has been both.” Turner leaned back to his original position, looking over the city.
    “ But then why can I be both?” Arianna watched Turner. Someone had to have the answers. He had the connections, so it was possible he knew.
    “ No one knows,” Turner admitted while not turning back to her.
    “Then there must be something wrong with me?”
    “ No.” Turner turned to face her as he talked. “Something’s completely right.”
    “ Do you think if they had lived, I’d have had siblings like me?” she asked.
    “ Maybe, maybe not. It could have been because of your parents or maybe it’s just you.” Turner stared back out at the city and smiled. “Maybe it was just fate. Which came first: the chicken or the egg? I don’t think we’ll ever know.”
    “ Great. Get all philosophical on me,” she complained as they both laughed, and she playfully hit his arm.
    “ You can’t dwell on how you’re different,” he added quietly. “Everyone is different. Don’t you see how well I fit into my family?” Turner never fit in his family. His father and older brother were both straight-laced politicians, but Turner never followed a rule in his life. While they could find pride in living by the books, Turner always wanted independence. Yes, Turner was different from them.
    Arianna watched as the last of the darkness came over the city. “Are you sure your dad isn’t planning anything