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#54 Shan Jeniah Burton
“I’m not asking you, Yoran. It is foretold .”
She accepted the baby from Morath, and settled him to nurse as she moved closer to her husband. “I chose you well, Yoran, and for more than either of us thought.” It was so easy, now, to drop the human form. Iridescent turquoise wings fluttered as if of their own will, allowing her to hover in the air, slightly above him.
He looked up at her . “You are fey.” He wouldn’t admit it, she knew, but his revulsion was blended with fascination.
“You didn’t vow to cherish me only if I was human. We didn’t raise our daughters with love and laughter so you could abandon them if they weren’t just as you imagined. I didn’t bear you a son for you to turn from him, or me. I am Natalia, your wife, as I have always been. These are our children, as they have always been.”
Yoran stared at her, and she could read the passing clouds of emotion in his eyes.
“Enough of this!” Sian snapped the flimsy chains. “It’s a waste of time. If he wants to hold his prejudices at night, rather than you, let him. When he let me be Recalled without a protest, he showed himself a coward. I, at least, have a lot of work to do – and I need Marci to help with the next steps.”
Sian clicked her tongue, and Marci was free, silvery wings flicking forward to brush against her sister’s vermillion.
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Part Fifty-One – Joe Owens
Part Fifty-Two – Shayla Kwiatkowski
Part Fifty-Three – Jennifer Eaton
Part Fifty-Four – Shan Jeniah Burton
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