Lives of Alcyone

Life XLI
After a short life spent in solitude, quite apart from her usual
friends. Alcyone this time returned to the bosom of her group—to the
very heart of it. Indeed, for once more she sat at the feet of Mercury,
once more she married Mizar, and for the second time in the
recorded lives she and Sirius were twins. They were born in the year
5635 at Girnar, in Kathiawar, and were the children of the local Raja,
Corona. Alcyone had an extraordinary sympathy with her twin
brother, always knew what was happening to him, and could
sometimes foretell things about him, and could sometimes foretell
things about him. When quite a little boy , Sirius once had a fall from
his horse, struck his head and was insensible for a few minutes. At
the same moment, at home, some miles away, Chandrakirti
(Alcyone) cried, “ Oh, he is falling,” and herself fell in a faint. Again
one day he was lost for a time, and his mother Leo was very
anxious, because there was a suspicion that he had fallen down a
well, and the mother began reproaching his attendant for not taking
proper care of him. The little sister, however, lisped: “ It is all right,
mother, you need not scold Biru. My brother is on the mountain, and
he is very tired. I am also just as tired, and as soon as he comes in
we shall both go to bed; but he is quite safe.”
The twins were always both ill together and recovered
together, and they seemed each to know what the other was
thinking—or still more they seemed to think together, always liking
the same people and things. Perhaps as they grew up the rapport