Raising a Hero

She had only wanted to have a working marriage and a happy family. All of her efforts had been towards that goal. Despite that, her husband leaves her for another woman after the loss of her unborn child, and just as she starts to pick herself up, she dies in a car accident. But this isn't the end of her story. Her spirit is picked up by her brother. He happens to be a beginner god who needs help raising the hero who is supposed to save his fledgling world. Thinking he is offering her a long-sought-after opportunity to be a mother, she readily agrees, and he sends her down to his world with the gift of healing and a Methuselah grade body to aid her on her quest. She quickly finds her little boy and is overjoyed to have someone to love and baby at last. But this hero doesn't want her as his mother. He wants her as something else. Suggested for ages 14+. Raising a Hero is created by T.S. Lowe, an eGlobal Creative Publishing signed author.

T.S. Lowe · Fantasy

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243 Chs

Chapter 109

When I thought of Nehcor, it was usually with annoyance. Even to myself I talked as though I could have done better without him.

But seeing him in person and hearing his words, full of affection, I flung myself over or through the kotatsu--it didn't matter which when one's body was spirit--and threw my arms around his neck. Something like tears, but without the feeling of wetness, flowed from my eyes.

I didn't realize until then how much I had missed him. My big brother. My family in a world of strangers.

His arms wrapped about me, able to fully hold me despite my incorporeal form.

"You've done so well," he said, patting my back as though I were a child. "You've been through so much."

I didn't feel like I had. I had been through so much worse before my death. What I really had been was a whiny baby saying I had been expecting a vacation and got a fantasy adventure instead. But his words comforted me nonetheless.

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