Phoenix Adams was in the delivery room at Lynwich Maternity Hospital. About to give birth to a baby girl. She knew it was a girl, even before the scans. Because every birth is a girl.

Phoenix was the last decendent of the Chimera. Beings, the world would believe, that came from mythology and associated with fire. But they were real and tonight, Phoenix was going to die and be reborn into another Chimera.

She lost count how many times she had gone through this process. The event would be the same as those she had gone through in the past. At the point of delivery and before the umbilical would be cut, Phoenix's soul will transfer into her child. The mother Phoenix, would then spontaneously combust, leaving the infant Chimera sitting...