Richard had been with Zedd when he had helped with a few difficult births. He knew how tense that kind of situation could be. “Why? What was the problem?”
“Well, actually,” Shale said, “I’ve never seen anything like it before, so it’s rather hard to explain.”
Richard was at his wits’ end. He threw his hands up in the air. “What was the problem? What happened?”
Shale cleared her throat again. “The thing is we were having a difficult time helping her in delivering the babies.”
Richard looked from face to face. “Were they breech?”
“No, that wasn’t it, exactly,” Shale said.
Richard planted his fists on his hips. “What was it, then? Why was it difficult? Tell me.”
Shale finally looked back up into his eyes.
“When the twins were being born, they were holding hands as the Mother Confessor was trying to give birth.”
Richard stared at her a long moment. “Holding hands.”
Shale nodded. “We had a very hard time getting them to let go of each other so they could finish being born. After we finally pried their hands apart, Cara was born first. Zeddicus came immediately after. For a time we didn’t know if we would be able to get their hands apart so they could both be born. It was a tense situation.”
Richard frowned. It didn’t make any sense.
“They are newborn infants. How difficult can it be to pry their little fingers away from each other?”
Shale looked up at him from under her brow. “You do realize they are both gifted, right? They were holding on to each other not just with their hands, but with the power of their gifts.”
About the Author
TERRY GOODKIND is a number one New York Times bestselling author. His Sword of Truth series has sold over 20 million copies. Before writing full-time, Terry worked as a wildlife artist, a cabinetmaker and a violin maker. He writes thrillers as well as epic fantasy and lives in the desert in Nevada.
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