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Snippet – Thaenad/Elise

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A snippet which occurs a few years after the end of Phaedra P_AlduraandTOA_Choices a moon-turn after Choices. If you haven’t read Phaedra or Choices — might want to pass on reading this one. 🙂

Araels Rest

Thaenad reverently touched Father Tree’s trunk. “She’s here, you know.”

Elise nodded. “Yes, she is, but she is also wherever we are. We don’t need to be here to be with her.”

Thaenad sighed. He sank to the ground beneath the branches of Father Tree and leaned against its trunk. “No, we don’t have to be. But here I feel as if her arms wrap around me and hold me. It takes away the pain.”

“Pain? Of her being gone?”

“That and the guilt of choosing to live instead of joining her.”

Elise gave a disgusted huff. “It shouldn’t have brought guilt. It was the only decision you could make.”

“Why?”

“Remember, Father. Remember! The Twin Goddess promised Mother that you and I would be reunited here before I was six. That couldn’t happen if your choice a moon-turn ago had been to not live. Both Mother and the Goddess knew what you would choose before it was offered.”

neat line