Looking through the wall of flesh, she watched in horror as the inhuman seed joined with her all-too-fertile egg.Looking through the wall of flesh, she watched in horror as the inhuman seed joined with her all-too-fertile egg. She sobbed one last time and was still. "Lovely Zara, most accursed of women, you have watched the conception. Now carry my child to term and bear. When your time is come, I shall send midwives to you. No one must know whose child it is. Tell them it is your brother's. I will see you twice more in your life: once after he is born, and I will be with you when you die. Farewell for a time, Zara." Wrapping himself in the unlight, Vendan vanished. |