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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Chapter 172

I became incorporeal. Not a body, just a mass of senses, looking out across a bridge of presence, which came across as many twining, titillating strands of light. None of Gus's magic reached out to pull me in. It only laid down to show the way.

I followed along it, feeling each tendril prick in awareness of my presence. And then I could feel him, all around me, as something mixed between a smell, a sound, and a feel.

"Well?" I asked.

"I'm not taking you anywhere," came his thoughts to me. "You go where you want, just like you said."

And so I did. I stepped down in a hazy place, prickling with fatigue, where his thoughts flowed around me like water. I could sense his feelings like a taste, his painfully sweet hope, his sour fear, and his bitter regret.

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