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Chapter 5
Deek and Frieda strolled hand in hand through the meadow. The sun warmed her face, and the light streaming down through the brilliant flickering waves above shone brighter than she remembered. The undulating seaweed glowed greener, with no foreboding shadows in the forest depths.
From a distance, she spotted Sasha cross between the trees on her way to her own house. Frieda hesitated. She’d never seen another person in her environment away from the wall, but not even that could change the undeniable rightness of the situation.
A little way further, Deek tugged her hand. “This way.”
Frieda stopped and nodded toward the forest. “I’m going this way.”
“The village is over here,” he told her.
“I’m not going to the village,” she replied.
He frowned. “Where are you going, then?”
“To my house,” she replied.
A black cloud crossed his brow. “But you’re coming home with me. I thought we understood each other about that.”
“Not yet,” she replied. “I’m not ready to move into your family home in the village just yet. I want to go home to my own house now.”
He stiffened. “We shared a vision of our future, Frieda. You saw the same thing I did. We’re family now. Your place is in our home. You know that. You probably don’t even have a house of your own anymore.”
The hair stood up on the back of her neck, and her hand went cold in his. She pulled a fraction of an inch away from him. “I still have a house. The water will keep it there as long as I go looking for it. I don’t want to go home to your family just yet. I’m going to my house, and that’s the way it is.”
“Why?” he asked. “What happened between now and what we shared back there?”
“Nothing happened,” she replied. “I saw the same vision you did, but I’m not ready to give up my whole life and everything I left behind to ride off into the sunset with you. I haven’t let go of the family I still have on land. I’m not satisfied in my own mind with the idea of staying here for the rest of my life, no matter how great it is with you.”
His eyes flashed fire, but she confronted him without backing down. If he couldn’t handle this, he wasn’t the right man for her after all. If he expected her to fall into his arms in a passionate swoon and forget everything else she was and dreamed and felt, he hadn’t shared her vision at all. He better understand her right from the start if they hoped to have any future together.
Frieda sighed. “Something has got to shift before I’ll be comfortable enough to stay here. I can’t pretend I don’t have family back on land who think I’m dead. I can’t live in peace down here while other people are suffering without trying something to change it. You can’t expect me to wipe all that part of my life out of existence just for the privilege of mating with you.”
“I don’t expect you to,” he replied. “But we could confront all those problems much better as a family. You don’t have to go off alone by yourself.”
“Yes, I do,” she argued. “That’s exactly what I’m saying. This is my life and my future we’re talking about. I have to go to my own house—alone—before I can come to yours.”
He thought it over. “Are you saying you might still decide to leave? Would you still walk away from everything we just shared, our whole vision, for some thin promise of a life on land? How could you do that?”
“That’s all it was—a vision,” she told him. “We shared a vision of what our lives could be like if I stayed and mated with you. That doesn’t mean that future is written in stone for us.”
“I never said it did, but....” he began.
She cut him off with a shake of her head. “If we’re going to have any future together at all—and I’m not making any promises that we will—I have to spend this time by myself right now. I have to understand this in my own mind, with no help from you, and I have to come to
Chapter 5
Deek and Frieda strolled hand in hand through the meadow. The sun warmed her face, and the light streaming down through the brilliant flickering waves above shone brighter than she remembered. The undulating seaweed glowed greener, with no foreboding shadows in the forest depths.
From a distance, she spotted Sasha cross between the trees on her way to her own house. Frieda hesitated. She’d never seen another person in her environment away from the wall, but not even that could change the undeniable rightness of the situation.
A little way further, Deek tugged her hand. “This way.”
Frieda stopped and nodded toward the forest. “I’m going this way.”
“The village is over here,” he told her.
“I’m not going to the village,” she replied.
He frowned. “Where are you going, then?”
“To my house,” she replied.
A black cloud crossed his brow. “But you’re coming home with me. I thought we understood each other about that.”
“Not yet,” she replied. “I’m not ready to move into your family home in the village just yet. I want to go home to my own house now.”
He stiffened. “We shared a vision of our future, Frieda. You saw the same thing I did. We’re family now. Your place is in our home. You know that. You probably don’t even have a house of your own anymore.”
The hair stood up on the back of her neck, and her hand went cold in his. She pulled a fraction of an inch away from him. “I still have a house. The water will keep it there as long as I go looking for it. I don’t want to go home to your family just yet. I’m going to my house, and that’s the way it is.”
“Why?” he asked. “What happened between now and what we shared back there?”
“Nothing happened,” she replied. “I saw the same vision you did, but I’m not ready to give up my whole life and everything I left behind to ride off into the sunset with you. I haven’t let go of the family I still have on land. I’m not satisfied in my own mind with the idea of staying here for the rest of my life, no matter how great it is with you.”
His eyes flashed fire, but she confronted him without backing down. If he couldn’t handle this, he wasn’t the right man for her after all. If he expected her to fall into his arms in a passionate swoon and forget everything else she was and dreamed and felt, he hadn’t shared her vision at all. He better understand her right from the start if they hoped to have any future together.
Frieda sighed. “Something has got to shift before I’ll be comfortable enough to stay here. I can’t pretend I don’t have family back on land who think I’m dead. I can’t live in peace down here while other people are suffering without trying something to change it. You can’t expect me to wipe all that part of my life out of existence just for the privilege of mating with you.”
“I don’t expect you to,” he replied. “But we could confront all those problems much better as a family. You don’t have to go off alone by yourself.”
“Yes, I do,” she argued. “That’s exactly what I’m saying. This is my life and my future we’re talking about. I have to go to my own house—alone—before I can come to yours.”
He thought it over. “Are you saying you might still decide to leave? Would you still walk away from everything we just shared, our whole vision, for some thin promise of a life on land? How could you do that?”
“That’s all it was—a vision,” she told him. “We shared a vision of what our lives could be like if I stayed and mated with you. That doesn’t mean that future is written in stone for us.”
“I never said it did, but....” he began.
She cut him off with a shake of her head. “If we’re going to have any future together at all—and I’m not making any promises that we will—I have to spend this time by myself right now. I have to understand this in my own mind, with no help from you, and I have to come to
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