Until the Celebration
“YOU MUST WAKE up. It will soon be time for the meeting of the Council.” It was Jorda’s voice, and it reached Hiro dimly at first, as from a great distance. For what seemed a very long time, he struggled upward towards consciousness through a thick fog of dreams. Dream images, fleeting, fading fragments, swarmed before him until, at last, his eyes opened and Jorda’s anxious troubled face replaced the thronging shadows.
“You sleep so restlessly,” Jorda was saying. “You turn and shake your head an...d cry out in your sleep.
“I was dreaming,” Hiro said. “I feel as if I have been dreaming for days.” Sighing, he climbed down from his nid and, reaching out for his bond partner, he drew her to him. They stood quietly for a time, encircled in each other’s arms, drawing strength from the power of their communion.
“Of what were you dreaming?” Jorda asked.
“Of many things. Many things. The past, the far past, and the long months since the Rejoyning. But just as you awakened me, I was dreaming of the two children whom I saw earlier.”MoreLess
“You sleep so restlessly,” Jorda was saying. “You turn and shake your head an...d cry out in your sleep.
“I was dreaming,” Hiro said. “I feel as if I have been dreaming for days.” Sighing, he climbed down from his nid and, reaching out for his bond partner, he drew her to him. They stood quietly for a time, encircled in each other’s arms, drawing strength from the power of their communion.
“Of what were you dreaming?” Jorda asked.
“Of many things. Many things. The past, the far past, and the long months since the Rejoyning. But just as you awakened me, I was dreaming of the two children whom I saw earlier.”MoreLess
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