Healing Elina II

“You’re pregnant? With Darkness’ child?” There was horror in Claire’s voice. “Elina, you should have told me. You shouldn’t have tried to do this alone.”

“You were able to make certain the child is female?” Gary asked. His first question. He watched Elina closely, his strange eyes burning over her face.

She nodded. “I didn’t think he would want a female as much as a male, and if we got away, he would lose interest. I don’t know.” She pushed back the few tendrils of hair falling around her face, showing them her exhaustion. “I honestly don’t know what I was thinking, I just acted instinctively. Something told me to do it and I did. I could at least control that.”

“An extraordinary feat, especially considering Darkness would be using compulsion on you as well as forcing his will physically. Later, when you feel up to it, we will need to know exactly what his delivery system was like. Perhaps you can give us the image in your head. Or at least,” he added when she looked horrified, “give