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As she stood on the fullabout her ankles, she reflected that Captain Mapstone’s riddle had been correct, that she would find the scything otten days Not only that, but she was sure this would be her way hoe frouide her home?

Problem hich of the crescentmoon?" One of them had to preserve a piece of time from her own timeline She refused to believe otherwise Could she cross thresholds without Laurelyn’s help? Or without the light of her ht She’d have to bring Lhean here for he would knowthevoices and a screeching soundout into the hall of the huht flowed across the floor fro to push an enor across the hall

Ghallos, she realized

They appeared to be stuck

"I a you, this axel is broken," one of the u at all

Uh oh, Karigan thought She was going to be trapped here for a while There was a chance she could get by thein on the side of caution If this went on very long, however, she would not reach Lhean this night

While the workmen bickered, she decided to explore the moondial room further, for there were display cases to look in It was difficult to h aht to pick out weapons--soh she could not see it well, she was certain the saber was her own, returned to its display case after its showing in Mill City She glanced back at the ax Could it be Lynx’s throwing ax? Had Dr Silk acquired all the gear she and her coenthyne?

There were other iteht have been their packs, and se that people could spend ti at her personal items, such as her comb and brush But how many visitors actually came to thisthat Dr Silk had created this place ratification than as a museum where people could come to appreciate the past

In a separate display case, the contents appeared to draw starlight to thean knew i the entire case Dr Silk had said earlier that they’d acquired ht about all the lives those moonstones represented Amberhill may have defeated them in battle, but any survivors must have perished from the loss of etherea and what had become of the lands with the use of machines Lhean had said even the air was poison

When she finished trying to view the contents of the display cases, she checked on the workers in the ressed far in their repairs of Ghallos’ cart, so she returned to her sitting spot and settled in to wait

The use of her ability combined with the trials of the day left her exhausted, and she dozed She dreahostly Yates sat beside her on the floor Translucent and silent as always, he revealed to her another drawing It was a sketch of the room she now sat in Only, in the sketch, Laurelyn stood in the middle of the room on the full moon Yates had captured her ephemeral beauty well, which could not have been at all easy, especially with only ink scratchings and no paint to bring her to life in color

When Karigan had last seen Laurelyn, after having led the Sleepers to Eletia, the queen of Argenthyne had bade her farewell; after protecting her Sleepers for a thousand years, she had expended her life’s energies and passed on to wherever Eletians passed on It had been a bittersweet parting knowing that such a legend would never again be present in Karigan’s world And yet, here was this sketch of Laurelyn host--all of which, she decided, was a drea and an kneas, ed statues rotated and the shading shifted, as though a new source of light had been introduced froht in the chaenthyne Laurelyn strode forward, the ink ether She halted, and Karigan heard Laurelyn’s voice in her lazed, the presence of Yates, and when she blinked her eyes open, she realized she’d been asleep and was now lying on her side on the cool floor The sky above the glass ceiling was beginning to lighten with gray tones Five hells, she thought

They were heading toward dawn She had to getbefore the palace woke up She put the peculiar dream/not-drea through the arched entrance, she found the ht still filtered out from the room of the workmen

She took a deep breath, faded out, and left behind the Eletian h the birds, she noted a bar of light beneath the closed door of the library Dr Silk le" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true">