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“These boys have been bitten by serpents! They are dying! Please, can you do something?”

“Did I not warn you what the people of Tzfas must do to be saved from this terrible decree?”

“Stand up! Call out the words, ‘Baruch Sheim kevod Malchuso l’olam va’ed,’ just as you do on Yom Kippur!”

“Do what you can to save him. I will hold you responsible if he dies in your care”

“Good luck, Your Majesty.” Matio locked eyes with his brother. “This mission may very well mean the success or death of your rule”

The twins were boys, and they were born in the Medieval Ages, to a Jew named Nesanel, and his wife