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Initially there was no response Then Lord Arabbed Yap’s shirt and pulled him down as Yap cried out in surprise Lord Amberhill’s eyelids peeled back, and his irises, usually a striking light gray, were clouded, se, lower, harsher, not at all the refined manner Yap remembered "Do you hear me?" Lord Amberhill demanded

"Aye, sir! I hear ya!"

As quickly as the outburst had come, it dissipated Lord Amberhill’s hands dropped back down to his chest, and his eyes closed, and once again he rested at peace

He saw thethrough water

But Amberhill was not in water He was pretty sure about that He had been, but his present existence felt war hi he should know the ht so, anyway, and another part said, "stranger" He wasn’t sure if he re or serf, farmer or fisherman

Beneath the surface of wakefulness, it was not all dark, nor was he alone Not far off were the slu shadows of those whose dreah above the land and swi into the earth Their desires becath and ferocity, they, the changers of worlds He felt hih he feared them But they slept, and so must he

He drifted until he settled into the still of dark

BRIMMING WITH SECRETS

Karigan kept gazing into the shard of the lookingof her own tiht, she saw no new visions

She concealed the fragment beneath her pillohen Lorine knocked on the door to help her prepare for supper Supper entailed another change of clothes into a ray affair It see table, with only the co on her The professor, apparently, was still out and attending to his duties She felt conspicuous and out of place, and ate as quickly as goodto her rooown, dooain till it was tiathered outside herMirriam poked her head in to check on her and to ensure she was ready for bed Karigan obediently climbed in beneath the covers and turned off her larunt of approval and left

Just like when I was a child being raised by ht a little resentfully It was difficult enough to lose her freedom as a female, much less as an adult, but it was the façade she must maintain for now