29 The Differences in Intercourse 2 (1/2)

'Lilly.'

She stopped, but didn't look up.

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'Lilly?' he asked, lifting her chin so she would look at him.

She looked at him and teal poison slid down the grooves in her face. 'James...I need...a healing...' She fell forward and he caught her.

'Lilly?'

She was unconscious.

Scooping her up in his arms, he quickly moved for the trees. But how would he tell a healing tree from all the others? A little chipmunk climbed his pant leg and sat on Lilly for a moment before running down and moving to a spot slightly in front of him. James took heart and followed the little chipmunk to a log with a shallow dish on the top. Laying Lilly in it, he knelt beside her and waited. She slept until early afternoon.

'James?'

'Yes, Lilly?'

'Last night was wonderful. It was nothing like Adremedian creation.'

'What does that mean?'

'Everything was different. There was a love deeper than any Adremedian will ever feel and a joining of soul and not just body.'

'You're just saying that.'

'James,' Lilly replied seriously. 'I mean that. After eight hundred years of living, I have only felt love that strong only one other time. It was when my mother gave her life for me.'

'I still find that hard to believe.'

Lilly sat up and took him deeper into the trees. 'I'll show you.'

She kissed him chastely and from deep within himself he felt a strong desire, but it was different. He was there not because he wanted to make love to her, but to aid their people. Then they lay down, fully clothed, next to each other. Words came to mind and he spoke them to her, lips moving silently against her ear as if he was whispering something to her.

'A cycle ends and another begins; Where darkness descends there shall light be again. Where dis-ease threatens the balance, your healing will keep it at bay.' He felt life begin to stir within Lilly as he spoke and her belly started to grow. She groaned softly and shifted closer to James. 'With brothers and sisters to teach and support, come join us in light, your gifts with us share.'

Lilly's abdomen shrank down to normal as her finished speaking the words. The child they had created cried from beneath Lilly's skirt. There was more to the cry than taking a first breath. Lilly sat up enough to pick up the child and place it between them as it fell silent. Her little eyes dark red with blood. The child was dead. James looked at the little, still form and felt nothing.

'So this is why Adremedians can let go so easily. There is no attachment to the partner or the child.'

'Yes.'

They lay with the dead child between them until it turned to dust and settled with the rest of the dirt.

'Lilly, why didn't the child live? Was it because of the Forbidden?'

'No,' she said, looking at him. 'It was because of the Adremedian and Gerrabella blood mix.'

'Does this mean we can never have children together?'

'I don't know. This is as new to me as it is to you.'

James kissed her. 'I love you.'