Aira could hardly breathe for the force of the words still echoing through the house. The first body was never buried beneath the house. It was buried inside you. The baby inside her went still for one terrible heartbeat, and then the bond between her and Kael flared so violently she felt it in her teeth. Kael lurched in her arms, the blackness at the edge of his eye surging again as the root gate tried to use the shock to drag him under, but Aira would not let it. She pressed both hands over his chest and shoved herself into the bond with everything she had left, every memory of him, every touch, every promise, every moment he had chosen her over the dark. “Kael,” she whispered, trembling but fierce, “stay with me. You are here. You are with me. Listen to my voice.” His breath came out ragged and broken. The tiny hand in his palm twitched once, then stilled. The baby inside her answered with a bright pulse that rolled through the bond like fire finding dry wood, and she clung to that
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