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Slowly they untangled, sharing their body heat as they lay in each other’s arms. Ariel gave a drowsy smile.

  “I think we did it.”

  Jarrett’s heart pounded hard. “You’re sure?”

  “I felt it. Those sparks afterward, the blue ones? They’re a sign of new life.”

  Emotion clogged his throat. He did not shove it down, but let it be. Jarrett felt his eyes fill with tears. A new beginning. More than he’d ever hoped for, or deserved.

  You do deserve it, my love.

  The ethereal voice floated on the wind. He turned his head, tracking it, and saw Chloe, transparent and shimmering with light. She stood a little ways off, smiling her gentle smile, clutching the hand of a small child.

  “Be happy,” she whispered.

  Then they became fainter, and vanished like mist under the hot sun.

  He felt a thumb wipe away the salt water trickling down his cheek. Ariel smiled at him and pulled him upward.

  “Let’s return to our cabin. I can’t wait to tell everyone.”

  Jarrett took her soft hand as they walked through the meadow that had known only blood and death, and had now given life. He walked toward their future as baby-blue sparks danced in the air around them.

  He did not look back.

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