Ello everyone...or no one...whoever. Anyway here's another chapter, sorry for taking so long to update. There will be more soon and hopefully I'll finish it up within the next month or so. RR please! Comment, complain, praise, question, anything...

With a scream Larka's eyes snapped wide open and she lurched up off the bedroll, her back arched as a powerful healing spell jolted her body. Before she could collapse Krillan's steady hands grabbed her and lowered her gently back onto the bed. Her eyes stayed open as she gazed upward at the faces around her. Their reactions were all of intense relief.

Krillan fell back onto his heels with a sigh and Taka, who was streaming silent tears collapsed into his arms. WhisperWing, who looked extremely pale and shaken, wiped Larka's forehead with a wet cloth with one hand and performed another healing spell with the other. Though she kept her composure well Larka could see there were unshed tears in her eyes. Liam however, completely broke down in sobs and began saying prayers to the Daedra in between the sobs that wracked his body.

Larka started to speak but found her voice gone and all that emerged was a small croak. She began to raise herself off her bedroll but an intense pain in her lower chest made her sink back down dizzily. "You stay down! You're not even close to being fully healed!" WhisperWing said as she tipped some water into Larka's mouth.

"Thank you." Larka whispered, "For my life." WhisperWing smiled and uttered another spell. Larka's hands slowly went to her stomach area and then to her collar bone and shoulder, feeling the heavy bandages there from her encounter with Jey. "Where isJey?" she asked urgently.

"Larka, she…Well she was stabbed in the heart…" Krillan said uneasily with a look at WhisperWing.

"I killed her Larka… don't you remember?" WhisperWing said quietly. Larka nodded slowly as the events of the night came back to her. So Jey was dead, and she should be too.

"Liam?" Larka called softly. His head shot up from his prayers as she called to him.

"Larka!" He cried, taking her hand and kissing it, "Thank the Daedra! I was so afraid…so afraid that you'd…" he whispered. She squeezed his hand and began to cry softly as she looked at the man she loved.

"I was dead." She said softly to everyone. "I went to Oblivion."

"Larka…what do you mean?" Taka asked quietly, gently taking her other hand.

"I died." She said looking at each of them in turn, "But I was brought back, by you." She said to WhisperWing with a smile. "You truly have a gift."

"Thank you. I was afraid that even if I saved you the baby would die, but she's fine. She's strong like her mother." WhisperWing said.

"Baby?" Liam echoed.

"Why yes, didn't you know?" WhisperWing asked.

"No, we didn't…I'm going to be a mother…" Larka said hollowly.

"Larka, I-I" Liam began but Larka stopped him.

"I love you Liam, and I'm truly ready to be a mother." She said with a smile.

"If you weren't half dead I'd hug you!" Taka exclaimed, making the entire group laugh with relief and joy.

Larka stood somberly as Jey's funeral pyre was lit. Having committed a grievous crime she was not to be entombed like her ancestors. It was the first day Larka had been able to stand since her injury and she absently felt her still bandaged stomach as she watched the smoke and ashes spiral upwards into the darkening sky as the last of the sun's rays disappeared. Liam, who had been standing with her gently kissed her forehead and stroked her stomach area below the bandage, where their baby was growing. Leaving Larka to her thoughts he went back to the huts till the only people left were Larka and Taka who came to stand beside her. "She had so much potential…she could have been so great." Larka said sadly.

"Why do you mourn her? She would've killed you, she did." Taka said.

"I suppose I've learned to forgive." Larka said after a time. Taka smiled and gave her friend a hug.

"You've changed." She said.

"I know." Larka replied taking Taka's hand and slowly making her way back to WhisperWing's hut where her bandages would be changed, leaving the smoldering remains of Jey's fire to burn out and send her soul into Oblivion.