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just outside the golden light.  Her skin tingled at being so close and she heard the low hum of power.  The Plant looked exquisitely beautiful and it seemed to be beckoning her.
    For a long time, she stood watching it, her mouth dry.  Then swallowing, she cleared her throat.  “I’m not sure how this works,” she called out to the empty shrine, “but please, I want Storm Kar to be restored to how he originally looked, um, please.” 
    A pregnant silence followed in the wake of her words.  Breathing shrilly, she reached out with her right hand toward the Plant.  Her fingers extended, she gave the nearest of the leaves just the briefest of touches.
    A force of unimaginable power knocked her backwards and across the floor.  She yelled in shock and a burning agony ripped through her chest.
    “Simone!” Storm Kar’s voice roared across the shrine.
    Confused, she managed to turn her head and see him being carried by one of Pevas’ triad selves into the shrine.  As soon as he was set down, he hurried over to her.  She frowned as the pain devoured her.  His face was glowing, changing before her eyes.
    “Simone!” he gasped, kneeling at her side.  “Simone!  Why did you do it?”
    “For you,” she croaked and reached up to stroke his face.  He was transforming rapidly now, his face becoming handsome and boyish.  Behind him, she was dimly aware of the three birdmen that made up Pevas standing over them.
    Another surge of pain gripped her and she moaned out.  She was dying, she would feel it, but it didn’t matter.  Storm Kar had been restored to normal and Dean would be waiting for her on the other side.
    “Simone, what have you done?” Storm Kar sobbed.  “Why are you leaving me?”
    Tears fell down Simone’s face.  She didn’t want it to end like this, but it was too late.  She had done the right thing and now she had to pay the price.  She stroked his hair as he wept opening, pushing his face against her chest.  Her eyes grew heavy and began to close.
    “No,” she heard Pevas say.  “It will not end this way.  Something is changing.”
    She didn’t understand what he was saying, and then the pain stopped.  She opened her eyes and sat up.  Storm Kar stared at her incredulously.
    “What?” she gasped.  “The pain’s gone, I’m okay.  I’m not dying!”
    “Oh Simone!” Storm Kar sobbed, locking her in a bear hug.
    She clung to him fiercely in return, desperate for the warmth and comfort of his body. 
    “But how?” she asked numbly.
    “Pevas worked it out,” Storm Kar replied, finally easing away from her and wiping his eyes.  “He thought you would try this even though I didn’t want you to.  He saw you go and came to warn me, that’s when he told me he had worked out how you could touch the Plant of All-Healing and survive.”  
    “I began searching through the ancient legends,” Pevas said, picking up the story.
    “When the Great Spirits hinted you could survive, I searched for something to confirm this, and discovered that the touch of the Plant is not deadly under one important condition.”
    “What’s that?” asked Simone, impatience for an explanation.
    Storm Kar fixed her with his deep, dark eyes.  No longer the burning red orbs of roar power, they were, instead, now silk soft and lustrous.  “You survived touching the Plant because you are pregnant.”
     

 
     
     
     
     
    Chapter 8: Leaving The Past Behind
     
     
    The celebrations lasted ten days.  After the chaos and damage caused by the floods had been put right, the Mystic Folk and the Phoenix People gathered at the citadel to venerate the Great Spirits and to mark Storm Kar’s and Simone’s union as soul mates. 
    The Podderers supplied their home brewed rango beer, which left everyone a little worse for wear, and Phoenix People performed aerial displays in the sky.
    Standing on the balcony of the citadel on the night of the final day of the celebrations, Simone watched the bird