Like when you two first met, your eyesight is ‘replaced’ with the blurry, shimmering auras of the world as Zo sees it. Shapes no longer have defined edges; rather, it’s all replaced with jagged, moving lines with blurry, vague limits and borders, bearing different hues of blacks, greys, silvers, and whites. You can see Zo, and you still intrinsically recognize her as Zo, but her vision does not register her as Zo – what you see is a cloud, vaguely in the shape of a lupine woman, and you see the aura of her lifeforce emanate brilliantly in front of you. You can see her body heat ripple away from the aura in thinner, vibrating lines. You can see the wall of her cabin behind her, and you can see the lifeforce of the ants and termites hard at work hollowing the wood out.
You’ve seen this all before, and it’s all just as intense and brilliant as it was the first time. It’s a whole new way to see the world – the whole universe, with all the people and plants and animals within it. Something as mundane as running water from a stream would be a wholly new and alien experience that you’d recognize as something you’ve seen a hundred times before, but from a perspective you hadn’t realized was possible before you met her.
But you don’t know what, exactly, you’re meant to be looking for specifically. Zo did this for a reason, after all….
Very carefully, and without moving her fingers on your head, Zo tilts your head downward. For as intense and brilliant this new vision is, you’re still limited to the range of your normal eyesight, and it’s hard to see ‘through’ Zo or her hands holding onto your head. If any of her fingers slip even a fraction of an inch, the connection would break.
When she tilts your eyes downward, you can see the rest of her body as represented by the aura of her lifeforce. The whole of her form throbs gently with her heartbeat, but no single part of her is denser than the rest.
But when your eyes get to where her stomach would be… you see it. A second aura, nestled within her own. It’s small – you had just seen the lifeforce of insects inside a wall, and this tiny dot of an aura is much smaller than even those. It’s the same shimmery-silver as the rest of her aura as well, so the literal colors blend in to the point of imperception. It doesn’t pulsate like Zo’s does, and is instead a single, solid color. But it’s as obvious as a lighthouse in the dark; as a streak of black across a white canvas. Life, as clear and intent as it could ever be.
You can see it with your own eyes: Zo’s conceived. She’s pregnant with your child.