Amazonia - The Athenaeum

you she has tried to forge the two parts together, but still you have much of Consort Boden's
blood running through your veins. You need to leave so you may find your light. The one who'll
sing your praises and keep your story alive for your children's children."
The pair stopped at a cove of rock by the water and sat on the sand. "Have you a vision for me
then?"
"In history you will find your mate, highness. She's fair like your mother, and like her, finds
comfort in words. When you find her though, you'll also find that there is a fork in the road to
your ultimate decision."
"What do you mean?"
"Visions are just that, highness, a glimpse of the future, not an exact map. You'll know what the
goddess wants you to know when the time comes. There is one thing though," warned Emelda.
"She belongs to someone else? Or perhaps she won't be able to stand me?"
A white brow went up at the princess' comment. "That's right. I guess the goddess didn't wish to
make your journey too easy. Only through proving yourself worthy of her, will you manage to
turn her heart to your own."
Bebo interrupted her before the priestess could go on. "Prove myself how?" She scooped up a
handful of sand and watched it run through her fingers.
"Do you want me to be honest, or perhaps you want to go and find out for yourself."
"Wisdom tells me to wait…"
"But your instinct tells you otherwise?"
The tall princess threw her head back and laughed. "Are my instincts wrong then?"
"Can I tell you something first?"
"Grandmother, there'll never be a time in our existence that you'll have need to ask me that. You
may ask or tell me anything whenever you please."
"I saw you as you slipped out of your mother's womb, just as I witnessed her own birth years
before. But with you, Bebo, with you, I wept because I was born too early."
The young woman brushed her hands of sand and took hold of Emelda's. "Why would you do
that?"
"I cried for the life some other woman would have at your side. Call it a jealous whim of an old
woman, but what I would have given to be the one your eyes would fall upon on the day