“Here is the story, as I understand it. When we were in the Mere, I drowned, though I was not meant to die so soon. That is why my body now lies on the surface of the Mistmere, with the Uri’el. Geya sent Lalluna to bring me life again because I had more things I needed to do. I had to make a child with you...” Katkin stirred in his arms and he kissed her softly. “Lalluna gave me the anafireon of an Amaranthine who had perished in the war against the Angellus. So after my human body died a second time, and I was left in the Vastness, I started to remember other lives, and other battles.” He sighed. “Far too many battles. Each time things happen differently, but in the end...” His voice trailed off and he gazed up at the ceiling.
Katkin shivered at the bleakness in his voice. She asked, tho
