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see the settlement of her final offspring, and we are seeking Huros’s mind mate.”
    Yoris scowled. “She should be down for breakfast. Just a moment.”
    Huros was swamped with well-being as the bruised and damaged parts of his mind were soothed and the healing began from the edges inward. He couldn’t think about anything but how balanced he was feeling. He hadn’t felt this good in five years. Well, that wasn’t strictly true. He had felt whole when he was kissing Jimra, but it had been such a fleeting moment that he refused to dwell on it. He wanted her too much to focus on her. The moment he started, he would not stop.
    Yoris finished his communication, and all colour had drained from his features. “It seems that dispatch was not updated as to the linking situation. They have sent her to Urmak to put out a mine fire.”
    Huros winced. That explained the pain in his mind. They were now bound. They could not travel without each other or their minds would slowly bleed out. Their focus, energy and control would fade and pain would take over.
    “What can we do?”
    Yoris’s hands formed fists and flames wreathed them. “We can’t do anything. Right now, she is over the mines and pulling the fire. It is up to her to make it safely home, and then, she is grounded.”
    Tremor chirped, and there was a note of concern in his thoughts. Huros stroked his fluffy head and soothed him.
    The woman with the raptor sighed. “Well, I hope for your sake that she comes home all right, or Tremor will have his work cut out for him. I will take you through the steps of caring for him, and we will wait until your mind mate returns.”
    Yoris looked down at the bundle of fluff in Huros’s arms. “That is the Yaluthu?”
    Huros smiled. “He is.”
    “I expected something larger. What is he doing?”
    “He has wrapped the wounded parts of my psyche, and he is pulling inward to heal it. I hope that Jimra is gaining the same benefit.”
    Yoris dissipated the flames around his hands. “I hope she is as well. I just got a daughter; I don’t want to lose her.”
     

Chapter Six
     
     
    Jimra let herself fall until the heat from the ground called her fire. She smiled, pulled up and cruised along the line of thick, oily smoke rising from the surface.
    The mask made things easier for her while she got settled, but when she felt the flames, she started to haul the heat from the ground, leaving a trail of frost in her wake.
    Hours passed as she sought out every bit of burning mineral. Even one inch of flame would reignite the entire disaster.
    When the whole area was frosted over, she abandoned the soil and soared upward, the fire she wore, swirling and tangling around her. She could see the shuttle, and she powered past it, up into the air where she could release the fire.
    Heat poured out of her in a jet, cutting straight through the cloud layer and toward the stars. She held back a tiny bit and wobbled her way to the shuttle.
    Catching a flying vehicle was quite a bit different than falling out of it. Rorrom tried, but it still took her three attempts to haul herself into the drop hatch and flop down on the floor.
    With the last of her energy, she poured the final blast of fire out through the hole she had just crawl through before she sealed it up and sent the signal to Rorrom.
    The pain in her head was blinding, and she couldn’t stand it anymore. She flopped down in the hold and felt the ship pull away from the world beneath them.
     
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    Rorrom got the emergency clearance and landed the ship on the tarmac next to the Citadel. He pushed Jimra out of the ship on the elevated gurney toward the group of people who were running toward him.
    Citadel Master Yoris, another Master with a small purple bundle of fluff and two healers met him on the way in.
    The healers touched Jimra’s head and hands, but they shook their heads.
    Rorrom looked, and the other Master brought the small beast to Jimra. The creature immediately went