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He caressed her cheek, his fingers gentle, and StarLaughter forced herself to
smile, even though her love for her husband was long dead.
WolfStar leaned forward and kissed her softly, allowing his hand to slide
down over her body until he felt the energy throbbing through her swollen belly.
His son, and so powerful, so powerful… did his unborn son conspire with Star
Laughter? Was their son the reason she thought she could best him?
WolfStar's hand stilled. His son. Even unborn he wielded more power than
any other Enchanter he'd sent through the Star Gate. His son.
Perhaps he could succeed… his son. And it would certainly solve the more
immediate problem of StarLaughter's treachery.
..




StarLaughter's hands closed over his and wrenched it away from her body.
No.' she screamed through his mind.
"I need to know, beloved," WolfStar whispered. "I need to know if I can
come back. I need someone to show me the way. Who better than our son?"
"You would throw a newborn infant through? You would murder our son?"
StarLaughter took a step back. The birth was only weeks away - how far
could she get in that time? Far enough to save her son's life? Far enough to save
her own life? What did WolfStar know? How much could he know?
"Too much!" WolfStar cried, and leaped forward and grabbed her. "Consider
yourself a fit sacrifice for your son, StarLaughter. Your body will protect him from
the ravages of passage through the Gate, my lovely. Will you not do this for our
son? He will come back, I am sure of it."
And once he does, WolfStar thought, I shall divest him of his knowledge and
then of his life.
Now so terrified she could not even speak with the mind voice, StarLaughter
shook her head in denial, her eyes huge and round, her hands clasped
protectively over her belly.
"WolfStar, not your wife! Not StarLaughter!" CloudBurst stepped into the
chamber, accompanied by several Crest-Leaders from the Icarü Strike Force.
WolfStar growled in fury and lashed out with his power, pinning them to the
floor. "Anyone I choose… anyone!"
He dragged StarLaughter across to the Star Gate. In her extremity of fear she
found her voice and screamed as she felt her legs touch the low wall surrounding
the Star Gate. "No! WolfStar! No! No! No,'"
It was the last thing anyone heard from StarLaughter for a very, very long
time.
Five days later CloudBurst's remorse and grief gave him the courage to
plunge the twin-bladed knife into WolfStar's back in the centre of the Icarü
Assembly on the Island of Mist and Memory.
He gave one sobbing, hiccuping sigh as WolfStar sank to the mosaic floor,
and then he relaxed. It was over. The horror was finally over.
There was no grief among the peoples of Tencendor when WolfStar
SunSoar's body was laid to rest in his hastily constructed Barrow above the
Chamber of the Star Gate. With WolfStar dead, entombed, and on his own way
through the Star Gate, Tencendor was at last safe from his madness.