Chloe and I fall asleep together.  Thoughts and gestures of love flow back and forth between us.  Finally, I, who requires physical rest, succumbs to those needs.  I know Chloe no longer requires such earthly necessities.  But, I am not there yet.<br/><br/>I doze for a short while.  Awaken, doze and fall into a fitful state.  With the surgery scheduled for tomorrow, I find myself unable to shake the nervousness that accompanies it.<br/><br/>As I lie there, a voice reaches me in Foresight:<br/><br/><em>"Mother.....please rest....your strength is needed for tomorrow's work.  Know that the Goddess watches over you and all will be well.  Your womb has been selected for this special blessed event.  Your story is known to us all.  Your change to beome both the mother and the father to one daughter is all part of the miracle the Goddess requires.  You have gone to a unique place under the guidance of the Goddess.  Both man, then woman.  Now your journey will be complete.  In time, my sister will be born.  Your first and greatest child.  Together, she and I will have powers beyond the knowledge of the Shadow and beyond their ability to stop us.  That is the future.  Rest my mother.  Sleep.  Tomorrow your journey both ends and begins.  Blessed be" </em><br/><br/>After Isis' visit.  I sleep soundly, and completely.  I awaken refreshed. Chloe is there.<br/><br/>“Coffee baby. Nothing to eat this morning though because your surgery is next.”<br/><br/><em>"Isis visited me last night"</em>....I begin to tell her.....Chloe puts her hand on mine and smiles.<br/><br/>"Yes, our daughter spoke to me as well...."<br/>