“He dreams more than he’s awake these days,” someone whispered quietly. The blue-white sun filled the afternoon sky with light too bright to look at directly. Xnx Oh, Zanath! ‘Eliannai, why are you in this little pink body?’
Elaine dropped to her knees as her memories came flooding back into her mind. “You could have become very, very rich…”
“I am very, very rich, my beloved,” Sibilius informed her. “The plant from which I picked this very leaf, Beloved,” Sibilius crooned at her, holding it out. “It didn’t work, did it?” she asked, knowing something had gone wrong but not knowing what. She knew it was this base, selfish desire that had nearly destroyed their world’s fragile ecological balance sixteen thousand years earlier, but she didn’t care. He reached over into his pouch, breaking his body-long caress. Alana was unable to move, now, and simply lay on the
