Destiny,Child of the Sky by Elizabeth Haydon

Author:Elizabeth Haydon
Language: eng
Format: epub

Carefully he slid his hands around her waist, assisting her to stand and sensing the damage he had caused her. She was bruised but nothing was broken, and she had pain in her shoulder but no bleeding.

She limped to the chair and reached for the pitcher next to the bed, which he quickly got and gave to her. After splashing water on her face and drying it with the cloth he handed her, she sat down, reached out her hand to him, and pulled him over to her. He knelt on the floor in front of her to be on eye level with her, his face still twisted with anxiety.

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'I'm really fine," she assured him, patting the side of his face. "What I am trying to tell you is that the children are all fine, too. They are with Oelendra, and when the F'dor is dead I will go and retrieve them. They will be loved and cared for, a far better future than the one they faced before."

'And their mothers? What happened to the women?"

Rhapsody took his head in her hands and kissed the top of it. "Their mothers are all at peace," she said, trying not to upset him again but unwilling to lie to him.

"Aria—that's the baby—her mother got to hold her before she passed, and I know she left for the light happy."

'You named her Aria?" His face softened, and she could see he was touched.

'Well, it's such a beautiful thing to be called," she said, smiling slightly. "It's a wonderful old name that is lost to this world if no one uses it, and that would be a shame, don't you think?"

Ashe's eyes filled with tears again. "Yes. Yes, I do." "And if you're wondering why I can forgive you for hurting me, you can find the answer in what you said a moment ago. You know I'm no willing victim, Ashe. You've tasted my anger and my fist before. But the reason you went raging on me was that you were overcome with the thought of the pain you witnessed, and you feel that you participated in, maybe even caused. I felt that pain too, even though, unlike you, I wasn't there to see it. It was horrific to a level that could not be borne and remain sane.

'You are a good man, Ashe. You have nothing to make up for, because you didn't do1 anything wrong. You were a victim too, in case you've forgotten. Yet you still feel responsible, even though you're not. You will make a wonderful Lord Cymrian because you will be the first one with a conscience, and certainly the first one who is willing to listen to his heart. Remember that old Lirin saying? Ryle him. Life is what it is. We can only do the best we can to make it better; these children are part of the way to do that. So please, trust me. The situation is well in hand. Now, go.

Be happy. Do what you need to do.

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