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“I need to make a deal. I need a goddess. I need you, Ayurveda,” she pleaded, standing up while her wounds pathetically attempted to heal faster than even her own Kinnari magic would allow.

The ash had stopped, like a sprinkle of rain passing through a valley, revealing the beauty and destruction of the volcanic eruption that now suddenly stood before her. In the form of mortal flesh hovered the nude figure of female divinity. Her body was thick with muscle, emitting power and lust. Her hair was long but partially translucent, radiating the light blue of the hottest of fires.

“Ayurveda,” Allienna mouthed, unsure if she felt relief or fear.

She stood before the literal sun, the power that harnessed and helped mold this galaxy. Compared to their creators, the Kinnari were just toys, pets, and children.

“I’ve been looking for you,” Allienna continued. “I . . . I was told of my inevitable immortal death.”

Ayurveda presented a face that looked familiar to her, one with the proper lines and curves for lips, eyes, and nose. It was lovely but otherwise statuesque.

“An immortal death does not occur so often in the realm you foster. However, I suspect that this is not the reason why you’ve searched for me. I do not get called by your kind, nor worshiped. Though your human creations do love me.”

“I want a child,” she blurted out.

Ayurveda floated down, her feet touching the earth as it turned black and ashy.

“You have tried to conceive. You were created to foster life on Earth but not create it. Your body was not designed to carry a biological child,” she said. Her voice rippled through the land, and flashes of power beamed out of her chest.

“Please, change me. Give me this before my death,” Allienna pleaded, tears welling in her eyes.

“This will set things in motion that were never meant to be,” Ayurveda said.

“If it isn’t meant to be, then why does every atom in my body tell me that this is what I want? This is the true reason I am here, attached to Arryn in every way. I was meant to serve him so he could create life. Then I am here, to nurture it, to let that child grow with no pain, only happiness.”

Ayurveda considered Allienna’s words, the moment of silence feeling long and deflating.

“If you proceed, then I must consider that I am changing another god’s creation. I am editing their purpose for you. This could mean an internal fight.”

“A fight will be imminent either way.” Allienna instantly regretted her choice of words. She knelt, putting her face in her hands. The skin there was now healed and renewed.

“You are willing to pay a price?” Ayurveda asked, stepping up to Allienna, radiating heat like molten lava.

“Yes, to anything you ask.” She looked up at the Sun, begging.

Ayurveda put her hand on Allienna’s chin, pulling her up to her feet while giving her second-degree burns. Allienna forced herself to not react, not unfamiliar with the sensation.

Moving her hands to Allienna’s lower stomach, Ayurvedawhispered an unfamiliar language as a glow of light emanated from her hands. She continued to whisper as the dress and the jacket melted away underneath her touch, followed again by more skin, more Kinnari blood speckling the ground.

Allienna let out a gasp, unable to contain the pain any longer.

“Keep still,” Ayurveda commanded, continuing the incantation while burning through Allienna’s womb. More tears flowed down Allienna’s cheeks. She was terrified to stay, yet also terrified to leave.

Another thirty seconds passed before Ayurveda finished and removed her hands from Allienna’s blood-soaked, burned body.

“It is done,” she announced. “You will bleed for the first time as a mortal human woman one time. Ten days after the bleeding stops, you must procreate to create the child that your body will then grow.”

“When, when will I bleed?” Allienna demanded. “What have I sacrificed for this?”

Ayurveda did not look at Allienna, floating now off the ground, ready to leave this realm that connected the gods and their magic to the portal of Earth.

“It is unknown. It could be today, it could be in a millennium. That I cannot control; it will be your divine biology.”

“What if I die before then? What if I never get the chance?” Allienna asked in disbelief.

“When the child grows and circles the earth sixteen times, you will have to choose to gift your immortality or watch the child die. This is the price you pay to keep the magic in this world in balance. I believe one of your kind would initiate that process.”

Allienna couldn’t believe her ears. This price was nothing more than a beautiful gift. She would die, but it would be her choice and at Amis’s gentle hands. She would get to raise and love a child.