Beta to Luna
I say to Elder Morris remorsefully.
“Don’t apologize dear Miranda. You had to take a chance. Lucky for me, it worked out,” he says with a chuckle. Looking toward my mother, Elder Morris reaches his hand out to her, “Lindsay, you stayed with me,” he says to my mother. “Yes, you old fool, I stayed,” my mother says with tears in my eyes. “Maybe we’ll be hybrids like Miranda and Rick,” Elder Morris muses. “No, we won’t. The hybridity only touches one generation every hundred years or so. We are not the destined pair. And for that, I am grateful,” my mother says as she looks at Elder Morris. She reaches over and places her lips softly on Elder Morris’s lips. She moves back and he sighs