A Backup Plan For The Plan

ZINA

With Zina's promise and word, Norima Talga discreetly left the room with her cloak pulled up and a newly acquired possession in her keep— Zina's staff, and a jar of Zina's blood in her keep.

Zina knew that of all the gambles she had ever made in her life, she had just made the highest one yet and yet, she could hardly find it in her to be fazed. The ritual which she requested of Norima was a most difficult one that required her blood for it to come to fruition. 

And after giving out so much of that blood, Zina was deliciously dizzy as she laid on her bed staring at the roof of her ceiling listlessly. 

Her right hand never left her stomach. Even though she could not feel anything, her soul was full with just the knowledge of the fact that she was now with her own child.

Blood of her blood and flesh of her flesh.