Konrad and Alexandra (pdf) - Rolf Gross

at the height of the contraction she saw the bright light again, only this time it was yellow.
Alexandra concentrated all her energies on it and guided it down to where Brimus was
demanding his release. She held it there in its full intensity. It enveloped her belly like a
powerful aura and only faded when the contraction ceased. Quiet reigned for a few minutes.
She could breathe again.
"Did you see the light that was around me?"
Sophia shook her head.
"Whenever I have a really painful contraction, I see brightly colored lights. They are very
helpful, all I have to do is focus on them, and the pain lets up. This time the light was yellow
and seemed to envelop my whole body like an aura." Another, milder contraction overtook her.
Deda and Sophia made Alexandra warm and comfortable. Konrad had been sent to the
kitchen to heat a large pot of water. They would need it to wash the child.
An hour passed before the child’s head appeared. Alexandra experienced a series of
smaller and larger contractions. The largest ones were again accompanied by bright lights, first
a green then a blue one.
The blue light invaded her entire body. The pain of the contraction seemed unbearable,
but the light persisted. When she gave herself up to the vision all pain receded miraculously,
she only felt the fierce powers gripping her body. At the height of the contraction her body
released her. Flooded by an indescribable pleasure she floated weightless in blue space.
Suddenly the blue turned a blinding white which filled the room. She saw her body lying
on the bed below her. The child’s head had appeared.
Brimus emerged between her legs. She smiled at him. She felt one last, huge
contraction shake her body, and there he was.
She watched Sophia cut and knot the umbilical cord, pick him up, turn him upside down,
and slap him on his bottom. He let out a loud cry. Alexandra laughed, and with that laugh the
white light abruptly collapsed, and she found herself back in her tired body, full of exhausted
bliss.
Sophia carefully washed the blood-smeared child and placed him into Alexandra’s arms.
"I have never heard a woman laugh during delivery." Sophia said shaking her head and gave
her the baby. "Of course, it is a boy!"
Konrad kissed his wife, and she handed the child to him. "Let us call him Otho in
Georgian and Otto in German. I like that name."
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