The angel, having taken his sickness into her own being, and mortally weakened from her generous offering, collapsed, dying, in the yard where her mother, the Goddess of Light, had birthed her. Does your companion still live?’
‘Wishing for what was is foolishness!’ Béla thought bitterly into Jeff’s mind. xnx “I think so,” Jeff said, squeezing his eyes shut and trying desperately to remember, so he could please his new goddess. She fell from the sky – perhaps that’s what she means. I was created to help people get better and to improve the human condition.”
Jeff looked like he was going to cry. They reached for each other in the darkened room, their bodies outlined by the flashing lightning outside. As much as he wanted to love her for himself and be her companion forever, he wanted to see them reunited even more.
