Naming Vesper

SIENNA

At the first sound of that old word from the second twin, every muscle in my body freezes in instinctive fear. The sound isn’t simply coming out of the baby’s mouth — it reverberates through the between-space itself, causing the crystalized moments of time in our immediate vicinity to crack and splinter as though we were pressuring glass.

"What did it say?" I whisper; pulling the twins clos