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Gharr moon was not my homeworld but it was similar.
We evolved in unison with this very same creature.
In the past, my ancestors struggled mightily with this beast.
When there were several of them, they could wipe out an entire Vulcarian village without much effort.
Over the eons, my culture developed weapons to overcome them.
Eventually, a special Vulcarian was born with the ability to directly overcome the Desert Flower threat with special glands in his body.
He passed the ability down to his descendants, of which I was one.
Now, I was trapped in that disgusting thick liquid in the belly of the Desert Flower.
It would consume me—slowly, over the course of many years.
I floated like a newborn ready to be born—and that, strangely, was what I was about to do.
I found that center inside myself, that soft golden light at the heart of every Vulcarian, and embraced it.
The warmth escaped my body and heated up the surrounding liquid in that giant pouch.
I listened to the rhythm of my heart and sent out pulses, simulating the process it went through when it gave birth to a Desert Flower.
As the heat rose and the creature felt me pulsing inside it, it shivered and a gap opened in its belly, spilling me across the sand.
I coughed and sputtered, struggling for air on my hands and knees.
The slimy liquid ran over me and drenched the sand.
I pushed myself up onto my feet in time to see the Desert Flower snatch Agatha again and drag her along the sand back in the direction of its quivering gaping maw.
I approached the vine that held her by the leg and rubbed the birth liquid over it.
The vine let go and set to slurping at the liquid on my body.
To the Desert Flower’s mind, I was its offspring and it would treat me as such.
The moment the creature released Agatha, she kicked back to get as far from the creature as possible.
She slithered half a dozen yards before she stopped and looked up into my face.
It took her a moment to recognize me.
“Egara?” she said.
She got to her feet and beamed with joy.
“Egara!” she said, throwing her arms around me. “I thought I’d lost you! I thought it ate you and… and…”
She pulled back and looked at me again, tears already shimmering in her eyes.
She had no other words she could think to say and leaped forward once again to wrap her arms around me.
“I’m so pleased you’re okay,” she said, her voice so soft and gentle it took me by surprise.
That golden light in my chest swelled as I took her in.
