Amelia I am so grateful to my mates for looking after me. Thanks to their quick thinking, I was able to get a reprieve. I may have been asleep, but I still felt everything. The pain of the heat would wake me, but I was unable to open my eyes. The only time I could was when they lifted the sleep mist. I heard bits and pieces of their conversations too. So, I feel terrible that they had to work so hard to keep me satisfied. Hopefully, my heat won’t be this bad next year. “It won’t be as bad, but we will have two bouts of heat. Our mates never marked us on the same day, so we have two heat cycles. And they aren't that far apart, so we will be in heat for the same amount of time. Eliza was right about her theory. We did experience the same heat as every species we possess power from. But

