9 Months Later

Chi leaned over the cot for what must have been the hundredth time in the last five minutes. She looked at the baby, her baby, as he slept.

The hospital room was brightly lit, nearly every empty space was filled with cards and flowers from the other sisters. She was still surprised by that. When she had missed her period and then gotten a positive result from a pregnancy test she had been sure she would be cast out of the church. She had gone to the Mother Superior, sure that she would condemn her in the same way her mother had.

Yet that had not happened, instead she had listened to her tale, albeit a version that was more in line with the church's ideas. Missing out the details of her long ago lover being the one to impregnate her and simply making it the Holy Spirit itself.The Mother Superior had listened to it all and then calmly explained that she had been given a great honour.

From then on she had become something of a celebrity in the church, albeit one whose fame never passed beyond the walls of the church. She had been visited by every high ranking member of the church in the 9 months leading up to the birth.

When it had finally come she had been whisked off to the finest hospital in the city for a birth that went almost comically smoothly. Even now it seemed like she was staying in the hospital overnight more as a way to justify the huge number of cards than anything else.

Again she looked over the edge of the cot at her son. Looking at his tiny pink face she couldn’t ignore how much of Sasha she saw in him. Of course that made no sense whatsoever, yet she was sure he had her eyes. The same strange imperfection that caught the light.

She had looked up Sasha when she had some downtime. Somehow she had expected to find out that she was dead or at the very least born again. Yet she had found her alive and well, still living in their home town, the only reference to her she could find was a note in the local paper about her wedding to a Miss Bella Cartwright.

It was strange, sometimes Chi would wonder why the Holy Spirit saw fit to take the form of Sasha. When she wondered about that she would end up wondering why she had been believed so easily.

Leaning over the cot again she let those worries slip away.

After all, the Lord works in mysterious ways.