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amadeo was consumed by all all-righteous fervency which swept heda with its beautiful anticipation. if there was ever a moment in which she had truly felt pure, truly felt new, it was this one.
he spoke with such wisdom that she felt as though this flowered bower was indeed a sanctuary inhabited only by he, by she, and by god. rapturous, hanging upon each movement offered by the holy man.
yes, the first time, heda redhawk ready to receive the sacrament of baptism;
yes, and she felt the leap of faith inside her as fierce and as radiant as it had been that first day she knew that the living word moved within her.
yes, yes to obedience, yes to herself subsumed in sacred service to the god who had never forsaken her, never left her side, and heda knew it now.
forehead; shoulders; breastbone; she quaked again at the intimacy of that gesture and shut her eyes again.
a pair of heartbeats galloping as he lowered her beneath the water, and pulled her up through the blessed deluge to him again;
we receive you.
but heda knew the look in his eye, sensed that beyond the zealotry which bound them with bloom-fragrant bonds, there was more to the way he held her so easily in the crook of his arm, and gazed down into her face with such an all-knowing intensity that she could not look away for any reason.
"i receive you."