Maybe that would explain why I felt weird. But I didn’t really think so.Mommy checked back on me after Daddy took my sisters to school. I’d starte... sweating a bit now, but the ice pack on my neck felt good. Even through all this, Mommy never said a word about my tummy. She’d even had her hand on it, but she acted like nothing was different. I had so many questions for my lover tonight, but that would have to wait. I was feeling funny again…Mommy checked in on me several more times, the funny. Or maybe it did go well—Corec ended up paying Barz’s penalty fee and my own. I don’t know how I’ll ever repay him. Maybe I should forgive him for not telling me about Ellerie right away. Anyway, we’d actually run into each other before that, and he’d cast the binding spell without realizing it, so the day after he caught me, the runes showed up. We were near the Terril Forest, so we went to ask the elves about it, and that’s where we met Shavala.”“I remember Treya saying something about the. They pulled off the side of the road, and when Melinda looked out, it appeared to be just a huge amount of mangrove-like trees, with a small sand clearing close by. They locked the car and walked to the clearing, feeling the sand under their feet. Shane picked up a stick, telling Melinda it was for spider webs, and then they walked into the trees on a small path, arched over by branches just above their head.She realised how secret this place really must be, if he anticipated having to clear. None noticed when the ship lifted off and landed on a similar glen a thousand kilometers north. Two families of beings joined them, Urg and her Mom, her sister,and two daughters. Urg’s brother’s two mates and their three children were there but he did not appear until later much to Teresa’s relief. Both clans were at first concerned with the others in the ship but when the first group spoke to the second in English all relaxed and joined them in dinner. When the doors to the ship opened again.