The Dual Claim
“When I death walked Mr. Vell, he showed me a beautiful silver-haired girl in his vision. He told me to always remember. I didn’t know what he meant at the time, but we… Gabriel and I, think that I was the silver-haired girl in his memory.”
“More than likely you were,” Maw said.
“How do you know that?” I asked.
Confusion started creeping in. “I mean no disrespect, but if you weren’t sure reincarnation even existed up until a few minutes ago, how can you be so confident that I was that girl.”
“It’s in the texts,” Bear said defensively.
Maw laid her hand gently on Bear’s forearm. “It’s okay. She’s one hundred percent right to ask the question.”
Then she turned to Gabriel and I. “It was written