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"Go back where, Karigan?" Laren asked quietly "Who is Cade?"

Her questions were only an quieted beneath her covers Her right eye was bandaged, and having few details on the injury, Laren hoped her Rider did not lose her eye or her sight It would not be an easy transition for her, as it had not been for others Laren knew She are of plenty of one-eyed soldiers who remained in uniforan likely would have no choice in the matter If she still heard the call, she would remain a Rider If her brooch abandoned her, she would leave the rateful to have her back alive

She nodded off in her chair again and was not sure if she was drea over Karigan’s bed, his hands hovering over her sleeping for, which alht it, shaking herself into a groggy but awake state She half-rose fro?" she dean in so to defend her Rider

"She was restless, her aze at her, the di to her of peace She rests quietly now"

Laren scrutinized Karigan Indeed, she slept tranquilly, her chest rising and falling with deep, regular breaths "Is that all you did?" she asked, still suspicious

"I sense in her an absence of" He touched his belly "There was a potential there that she carried, but even the faintestexisted has fallen to ashes"

"A potential? In her? Oh!" Laren fought to shake off the persistent grogginess "She was carrying a--?"

"Not precisely The potential was there, the very earliest germination of a seed The potential became unmade with her return That which has yet to coe for Laren’s sleepy an had traveled before to the tio, and returned to the present with a knife of that era in pristine condition Objects of the past, objects that existed previously, could come forward Those yet to be created could not come to the past

"Her return" Somial sounded uncertain "It is difficult to know its sway, if any, on the course of events"

"Course of events?"

"There are many threads to the future, Captain, and clear to no one, not even Eletians There are just too many variations" With that, Somial departed, his feet silent on the stone floor<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>