When i got home i did not have any dinner and just went to sleep. I dreamt about the slap and all the moments preceeding it. I resolved to appologize ...o her the next day, if she did not already tell my mom.To my surprise and relief she said nothing about it. The whole day i was gone out of the house so that i would not have to face my aunt in front of all the other people. I told my mom i would be having dinner with my friends and will come late at night. I started towards my aunt;s house. My. “Move!” I yelled, fetching half a handful of sand from a pouch. Katriana stumbled back, letting me squeeze by. Once I was at the threshold, I tossed the fistful of sand into the air and canted the Hex of Lotus and Willow.Thankfully, most of the spiders went dormant. Or torpid, or whatever. Four of them kept descending towards us, and I stepped back, letting Katriana forward again.“Okay, I bought us a little time, about five minutes,” I said, “Voss, you need to go back to the packs, and grab my. ‘No problem,’ Jess replied. ‘Do you wanna hang about here for a bit? There’s nobody around?’ ‘Uh, sure,’ Jess said. She didn’t think it would be that easy. They sat on the sofa and talked, and Anna poured her some wine, with Jess promising not to tell her mother. They sat opposite each other, and Jess relaxed and casually opened her legs, noticing that Anna kept glancing at her. Then Jess moved beside the tennis star, and rested a hand on her knee. ‘Um…’ Anna began, but Jess slid her hand up. Another spring, another blessed babe to grow and bring forth her mother’s will. She gritted her teeth as another much stronger contractions gripped her body. This one knocked the air from her lungs and doubled her in pain. She fought to remain on her feet, to make it to the small cave that would provide her with the shelter and protection she needed to give birth to this new life. But each step seemed to be greeted with more pain. She felt her strength begin to drain as it did each winter as.