Pregnant And Rejected Mate
"I found it," she said, breathless, pulling a worn, ancient-looking scroll from her satchel. "Buried deep in the oldest section of the archives, exactly where Ada's lineage of healers would have stored something this significant."
Ada took the scroll with trembling hands, unrolling it carefully, her eyes scanning the faded text with growing intensity.
"This is it," she said finally, her voice tight with a mixture of relief and dread. "The counter-ritual. But Sera, Kael — I need you both to understand something before we attempt this."