Revelation
Several months earlier.
“She’s beautiful darling,” said Church with tears in his eyes as he held his baby daughter.
“She will make a great Keeper,” whispered his wife Sue, who smiled as she watched the tender moment between her newborn daughter and beloved husband, as multi-coloured auras filled the room.
“Mr Potts, we are about to take your wife and daughter to the ward,” said a nurse.
The midwife came over, took the baby from Church, and placed her into an incubator, while another nurse gave Sue a warm soapy flannel. The other maternity staff went about their usual post-birth routine, unaware of the kaleidoscope of colours radiating around them.
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Church drove back to the cottage with a smile a mile wide. He could not wait to tell the team about his daughter.
Ryan
