The Reward was worth the wait...

She could not believe what she was seeing. Her two younger ones were not breathing.

They were dead.

"Apparently the pot of food was poisoned, and the little ones ate it too," Chiron sighed, "Their bodies are not strong and they do not have cultivation to preserve their lives."

He shook his head in pity.

Meanwhile, Carla was already crying her heart out on them in low deep growls.

"Wake up!" she whispered continually through her tears, but none of them responded.

She could see it. Their skin had even started to change color and blood came out of their noses, eyes, and even ears.

Carla held them tight in her embrace. This was her world, and it had just been destroyed. It had been totally destroyed.

Even now, as she looked at their forever-still faces, she could still hear their voices when they played, or even when they argued with one another.

She remembered when they ate together, and when she would tell them bed time stories.