Chapter 15
The New Spear-lordMany days and nights passed before Kyra regained consciousness, but when she did she was amazed to find herself still alive.
Ashen and pale and thin she was, but still very much alive.
She looked around her room savouring each familiar thing.
‘I did not die!’ she whispered to herself with joy. ‘I did not die!’
And then she remembered her baby, and her head turned with anxiety to look for her.
‘Yes,’ Fern said gently, sitting beside her. ‘Your baby is safe too.’
Kyra smiled with great joy.
‘A girl?’
‘A girl,’ Fern confirmed.
‘I will call her Deva. It means ‘shining one’ in a language I once heard in a dream.’
‘You and your dreams!’ teased Fern. ‘I thought you said you dreamed you were going to die?’
Kyra was too weak to say any more, but she smiled a
