I gazed anxiously at Far Horizon. He’d been asleep for a long time now. Almost a day actually. I had wanted to awaken him many times, but the doctor named Edgar had said to let him rest before he left this morning to go back with Taran and Logan to their world.
In addition to my angst over Far Horizon’s well-being I was also struggling with a good deal of curiosity. To this moment I was still not sure what or how the Doctor had pulled off what he had.
In the fighting for the destruction of the settlement several warriors had been badly injured and one of them a few days later had died. With that family’s permission the doctor had taken the man’s tongue and somehow grafted it onto the remaining stump of Far Horizon’s tongue.
The transformation hadn’t stopped there either though. The doctor had injected some sort of healing solution into Far Horizon’s remaining tongue tissue, which had somehow spurred growth. The way the doctor had put it, the other man’s tongue only served as the framework for which the elements of Far Horizon’s body used to build a complete replication of his former tongue while using the other tongue as a means of constructional aid.
The outward skin of the borrowed tongue, which had all that had been left of it, had sloughed off this morning and I’d seen with mine own eyes the solitary tongue that remained without any sign of scarring in its place. How all this could occur in about the span of a week was beyond me, but miracle that it was it had.
To my delight then I saw Far Horizon’s eyes open and adjust to the dim light of the tent. Leaning over him I whispered, “How do you feel?”
He still looked rather groggy, but shifting his lips uncertainly they parted, “Tara?”
“Oh God! You can talk!” I half screamed beside myself with excitement.
I loved it! His voice was amazing! Everything was amazing!
I felt myself tearing up again. Far Horizon’s thumb on my cheek wiping at the moisture of a tear brought all my attention back to his lips, which I watched move to say, “I love you.”
Looking to his eyes I cried out with all my heart in my voice, “I love you too!” Then I lost myself in the joy of kissing him and feeling him kiss me in return.
Life can be hard, but I’d found that even in the midst of the harshest of trials that if I only trusted my Creator then His peace would come upon me and that He would not only get me through those hard moments I faced, but also prosper me in ways beyond any imaginative comprehension I could ever possess. God was so good to me!