Fresh tears appeared in Mandy's dark eyes, but they didn't fall. "I came to Gaia, and she determined that the child would be dangerous. A-at least, that's what she told me. I've always wondered if she told me that to make it easier for me, or something else."
"No one can lie around you," Shelly reminded her.
"No, but Gaia has been around me enough to know how to speak the truth and still mislead," Mandy said. "Perhaps the child would have been safe enough, except that the pain it caused me was dangerous, or something else. I don't know."
