I said. “That can’t be right, Terian. He loved not only Tasha but Aspen, too—” “Tasha is similar enough in feature to be Aspen’s twin, Sar. They look closer than sisters. He probably fell for Aspen for that reason alone. She resembled the person of his forced affection so closely he couldn’t help himself.” “No, someone would have noticed—” “No one could have,” he countered. “You avoided Tasha and none of us had ever seen Aspen. If I had, I would have suspected at once, as I did when I saw her in your memories.” “But he left Aspen easily for me,” I said, confused. “Aspen didn’t do this to him. She has no hold over him except her appearance, and when you renewed the dream with him, you lessened that. But if you had left him with her, he would have come to love her as an aftereffect of the spell.” “All this about renewing the dream,” I said bitterly. “If our bond was as special as you make it out to be, how did Tasha get Theo back with just a letter?”
