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"No," Aracia replied "I don’t think she’s quite ready Froht be the first The story of the world sort of sets things up for the other Drea in her dream?"

"It came very close to what really happened," Zelana replied "Eleria has some proble dolphins when she was a baby, and she speaks dolphin e It’s probably my fault I was too busy with poetry and uess Anyway, I’m fairly sure that Eleria still thinks in dolphin, and dolphin baby talk isn’t too precise She did her best, though What’s your child’s name?"

"Lillabeth," Aracia replied fondly, "and she’s the most beautiful creature in all the world"

"They seem to do that to us, don’t they?" Zelana said

"Do what?"

"Distort our perceptions, dear sister," Zelana replied "I’d iine that Dahlaine and Veltan feel the same way about their Dreas about Eleria It’s probably very simple We love them because they are ours"

"Could you be a bit more specific about this dream your Eleria had?" Aracia asked

"Let’s wait for Dahlaine and Veltan There were soan to dream, and I think Dahlaine’s the best qualified to interpret them"

"That’s assuets here," Aracia added

It was probably late afternoon outside when a pair of shattering thunderclaps shook the air for miles around "That is so childish," Aracia noted "Do they really have to do that?"

"They’re still little boys, dear," Zelana replied, "and showing off is part of their nature Riding a lightning bolt is a sure way to get everybody’s immediate attention"

"But they look so silly after they do that--glowing and with their hair standing on end the way it does"

"I think lightning does that," Zelana said "It is a very fast way to travel, but I think I’ll stick to riding the wind It’s almost as fast, and it doesn’t make nearly so ed froeway that led down from the surface

"What kept you?" Zelana askedour baby brother," Dahlaine replied sourly

"He can be such a grouch sometimes," the tall, fair-haired Veltan noted

"I wouldn’t be nearly so bad-te to hide from me," Dahlaine said "Did you tell our sister about Eleria’s dreareat detail, no," Zelana replied "A number of her servants were there, and I didn’t think they needed to know the full extent of as happening just yet"