“Yes,” she agreed. “My powers are but a mere fraction of what yours were, and I too have found it to be so. The responsibility that goes with them is great, and the desire to misuse them is sometimes overwhelming.”
Dina smiled and sighed. “Yes…but to go anywhere you wanted…”
“And where would you go, my wife,” asked Linis in an accusing tone. “Would you leave me to tend the farm while you go adventuring?”
Dina ignored his apparent irritation and laid her head on his shoulder. “Of course not. I’d take you with me. And I wouldn’t go adventuring. I’d go to the hot springs west of the fire hills. The water there is so warm and pure…” She moaned with pleasure at the thought. “I could bathe in it for weeks.” She looked up at Linis and gave him a tender kiss. “I meant to say, we could.”
He smiled and pulled her close.
A few minutes later, Gewey and Kaylia stood up.
“We should be going,” Kaylia said. “I promised the children that we would be home before they wake up.”
“Linis and I are staying the night,” Dina told her. “But you can take our wagon if you want.”
“That’s not necessary,” said Gewey. “It’s nice out. I think we’d rather walk.”
They said another heartfelt goodbye, then left the manor. Hand in hand while walking along, they talked of how much they had missed their friends, and how long it would seem before they would see them again once they had departed.
When the farmhouse came in sight, Kaylia stopped and closed her eyes for a moment. “They’re asleep,” she said. “And it’s still several hours until dawn.”
“What are you suggesting?” asked Gewey, but with a knowing smile.
“I am saying that the hot springs Dina mentioned sounded wonderful.”
Gewey wrapped his thick, powerful arms around her waist and held her tight. “Very well. But this time, let’s get home before they wake up.”
Kaylia kissed him long and deep. “I’ll try to keep my mind on it.”
The wind rose and swirled around them. In an instant they shot skyward, hurtling west like a blazing comet. Though no one could ever know the truth, whenever they basked in the warm waters of the springs, or sat upon the highest peak of the Razor Edge Mountains, or even strolled the beaches of some remote island, they were not simply Gewey and Kaylia.
They were Darshan, God of the Wind and Sky, and Kaylia, savior of his soul.
Their love, like their spirits, would live on…forever.
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