<div class="floatleft"><div align="center">(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/cdc1/04s7432n614occi4g.jpg)<br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">Chloe Dawson<br/>  ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾  </span></span></div></div><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>… Kimmie and I depart the glade … back at the mansion, we go to our room … inside, I draw her into the bedroom where I sit on the bed cross legged and beckon her to join me … we are knees to knees … holding hands …</em></span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">  “Are you okay, Kimmie? Holy goddess! This has been a ride and it isn’t close to done! Not by a long shot!”</span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>… squeeze her hands gently …</em></span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">  “I hope it doesn’t surprise you that we need to have our baby. Your sperm and my ovum. Our daughter. Her name will be Isis. She will be born with Foresight and Hindsight because my ovum and blood and her placenta are all of that and more. She will be aware from shortly after conception. I know I will spend much of her gestation holding her and protecting her from whatever is happening around us. I will need you to protect me, to protect her. And Tangie and Huguette and Mother and others we haven’t yet met.”</span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>… deep breath …</em></span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">  “But here’s the thing. You have to choose, Kimmie. You. Because you and I won’t live to see our daughter save the world from the Shadow. One of us dies while she is young, and I can’t see what happens to the other. We may not be there when our daughter does what she must to turn aside the Shadow and let the light of the goddess shine once more upon the world. But that’s true of many parents, so we must prepare her well and that will be enough.”</span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>… edge closer to her on the bed …</em></span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">  “The time to conceive our daughter is early tomorrow morning. The moon reaches total fullness after the bonfire ends and we return here. Then is the time you place your sperm in me and our daughter is conceived. I do not believe we have other children, but I cannot Foresee everything about our lives.”</span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>… my hands slide up her arms and I slide forward to sit on her lap … my arms around her … my breath in her ear …</em></span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">  “Please Kimmie, please choose wisely. If we don’t have Isis, we live to a ripe old age. If we do, our lives are chaos and the world survives after we move on.”</span></span><br/>