"The beings made by Life can all grow and evolve. Most of them change slowly with time, others have explosive growth phases. The ones that change a lot in little time usually become Heroes. Their species will try to ride their powerful growth to a better lifestyle or, they are feared by their kin and that fear make them try to eliminate the different one. The birth of a Hero usually is followed by changes and the birth of an Overgod."

-Bee May, the faery of knowledge

"Heroes should die young. No Hero can stay a Hero... They will grow old and into a villain."

Fianna was in a strange dream, she was following a naked young woman in a forest while a snowstorm was buffeting them. That young woman was carrying Fianna's husband and son with her. The cold was getting more intense, they walked for hours, or it felt like so. The strange naked woman would stop form time to time and yell to the wind. The woman was crazy, Fianna was crazy too... She had no other explanation, Fianna let her heavy husband and lighter son, be carried by a nacked woman that screamed at the sky, during a snowstorm.

Then the snow stopped abruptly, they came inside a clearing, the trees were making a wall that stopped the snow and the cold winds from coming in. Fianna could not even hear the sound of the wind anymore. She could only hear the gentle and relaxing sound of water slowly moving. In the center of the clearing was a pool of water, so pure it was almost invisible, only the ripples as the water moved made it visible.

The naked woman dropped Little Wolf on the soft grass then, now that she had both hands freed, she moved Sidon in a better position and threw him into the water.

"What are you doing!?"

Fianna found herself screaming.

"The water will sustain its body, it will be all up to its Essence if he comes back to life or not." The naked girl shrugged. "You should enter the pool too, the water will heal your hand, you walked in the snow with those clothes too... You might die from the cold if you don't use the life giving effects of these waters."

Fianna ignored the crazy woman and dived in the waters to try to save her unconscious husband. As her hand touched the water, the hot and cold pain that afflicted her just disappeared, the black fingers were back to rosy and healty. She found that the waters were not cold nor hot, just pleasantly temperate. When Fianna got in sight of her husband, the ice was gone, there was no blood in the waters, all the wounds on Sidon's body disappeared, even the scars. Almost all of them, a big scar on his chest, the wound that the wolf-man caused endured the water's healing, it was healed, it became a scar instead of disappearing.

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Fianna tried to get her husband's head outside of the waters but, suddently the woman was behind her, locking her arms and stopping her.

"The waters will sustain him, if you let him outside you are killing him. We will drink this water to stay alive until the child wakes up, then I will take the child away to train, when the winter is over you can take your husband away, I don't care."

Said Mira.

"You won't take my son away!" Said Fianna then she looked over to the side, where the unconscious body of Little Wolf was splayed on the grass. "Why is he on the ground and not on the water?"

"Eh, the faery of water told me not to. She said that if I threw the child into the water... she would come here and kill me personally." Said Mira. "When I tried to use the Neutral Elemental Spirits to check his condictions, he ate them. Probably if the child touches the water he would make it disappear and, the faery of water could not be bothered to steal some more from Life..."

"So, are you saying that we need to stay here until the snow is over and then we will on our own ways?"

Asked Fianna.

"Yeah and I will take the child with me, don't forget that you Bull Rider. You won't change my mind and cannot stop me, I'm stronger."

"Why do you keep calling me Bull Rider? I'm Fianna and you won't take my son away from me, even if I'm weaker than you... You don't know how strong a mother can be."

"You are a redhead, I traveled a lot and only the Bull Raiders have red hairs. He-" Mira pointed to Sidon."- is the perfect example of someone form Arthus."

"My family was made by traveling merchants, our home was the caravan, I did not know that my family was from over the golden sea..."

Said Fianna thoughtfully.

Mira started floating in the pond, her black hairs spread in the waters, Fianna noticed for the first time that the woman's black hair had some purple reflexes on them.

Time lost its meaning for Fianna while inside the Pond of Life, the sky was white, around the trees that protected the clearing the snowstorm was still going strong. There was no day or night, everything was always the same. So Fianna spoke with Mira, the naked girl was rude and distant at the start but Fianna knew her way around children, she was only a lonely and angry child.

The two women started to train togheter, Mira was really strong, her praticed movements used the minimum ammount of energy necessary, the young woman moved with purpose. Fianna could not understand her when she spoke of spirits or kinetic energy but, now she started to believe that Mira knew something she did not. Maybe they were not in a dream after all... If only Little Wolf woke up, it was strange that he was still sleeping. Sidon was still under the water, healing.

One day their routine was interrupted, Mira pushed the grappled Fianna away and jumped into the pond. She came to Sidon's side and put an hand on his chest.

"Shit! Fianna, his Essence is losing the will to fight, he is dying!"

Screamed Mira.