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became
measured. Brady panicked and ran through the opening to Chara to
find my father. We could feel the baby and knew it was calm, just
easing its way into the world. We concentrated on filling Felicity
with as much peace and calm as we could.
    My father stepped in the string a few
moments later; he smiled at me, relived that I’d come home. He then
circled Felicity, looking her over. Brady was right behind him, and
Landen reached out and touched his arm as well. The string
intensified the emotions around us, and Brady’s nervousness was
vibrating us both to the point of distraction; calming them both
down was the only way we would be able to sustain Felicity. Brady
smiled as he felt the peace Landen was sending him, and his
shoulders relaxed.
    “Let’s just think about four thirty-three
right now,” Landen said, looking at Brady. If my father was right,
it would be over by then.
    My dad looked at me, then at Felicity. “OK,
here comes one,” he said to her.
    Felicity nodded and started breathing short
breaths. I put my hand on her stomach and shoulder. She screamed
out, then started to count along with my father. When it was over,
she smiled a little.
    “Not so bad...I can do this,” she said to
herself.
    The advantage of having a doctor that could
see everything going on inside your body and understand it without
even touching you continued to be virtue for all of us.
    “I think we should go back to your house now
– unless you were intending to deliver in the string. You have one
hour left,” my father said. Felicity nodded, and we started to walk
to the opening.
    “Wait – here’s another,” my father said
aloud. We all played our parts and counted with Felicity. When it
was over, Brady leaned down, picked Felicity up, then carried her
through the string. Landen and I walked alongside them, never
losing touch of Felicity. Outside the string, most of our family
was waiting. Ashten was doing his best to keep Aubrey calm, and
Rose and Karsten were playing with Preston and Libby in the field
of flowers. My mother and August were waiting as well. My father
took the driver’s seat of Brady’s jeep, and we all climbed in the
back with Felicity. Their house was only three small hills from
this opening.
    As we passed by our house, I smiled at
Landen. We had spent such a small amount of time here that I missed
it deeply. I remembered visiting it through dreams before I ever
even knew Landen; it was my safe haven.
    Clarissa and Dane were waiting on Brady and
Felicity’s porch. I was sure that Chrispin and Olivia were close; I
was even surer that the four of them had been spending a lot of
time traveling back and forth between Franklin, giving Olivia and
Dane’s family a chance to ease into the separation. I knew that
Chrispin was keeping a close watch on my friends. He wanted nothing
more than to say his peace to Drake.
    As Felicity was carried to her room, Aubrey
made her way into the room with us. Ashten and the others waited
outside with discretion. Landen had positioned himself so that his
body would face Felicity, making room for Brady to be by her side.
It was not hard to continue giving Felicity the love and peace she
needed; we could feel it coming from the ones we loved.
    My father smiled at Brady, then at Felicity.
“Alright, with this next contraction, I need you to push,” he
said
    She nodded, and three contractions later -
at exactly four thirty two - we heard the first cry of the
beautiful baby girl. I could feel her remarkable emotion as her
eyes meet my father, then Felicity and Brady. The first emotion we
feel when we enter this world is unconditional love; it’s strange
to think how we lose that as we get older, only to search for it
again.
    “I guess your women’s intuition was right
again,” I said to Felicity. She had told me before that she knew it
was a girl. My father had offered to tell them, but they wanted to
wait.
    “So do we have a name?” Aubrey asked, edging
closer to see