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Had it not been for the palpable air of melancholy now present, Aldrec's confession would have elicited a more powerful reaction than Jenius' somber nod

"Mericlou was the catalyst for the prophecy, and now that our love has been consummated, it's only a estured to the device "-will give you data on the layout of this house, and how the runes work Vinta will live for a hundred years after I'one; by then you should be safe to live wherever you please"

"Why have you brought us to this room?" Tescadji said, awed as the rest of the family had been over the beauty of the house, how little of it he had been privy to see in the short ti," Aldrec said, his voice holloith faded disgust as he ascended the steps to the raised platforain surrounded him, blown by an invisible breeze Despite his sorrow, he still ed to smile "I must show it not only to you, but to the world I weary of it I weary of its prejudices And unless there is an intervention, those saets better"

"How do you suppose we fix it, then?" Sedriil said, holding the still-devastated Alaema close beside him, as Garen did with Noroa "I mean, we're only androids"

"It won't be you who 'fixes it,'" Aldrec explained as the shower of petals increased in thickness, flowing about his body as if he were suspended in the ends that when High elves spoke, the world listened Now, you will understand what those legendshis true terrible beauty to all present, in sudden and devastating glory The fa Tescadji to hold hi to break down the door

The petals spun and whirled, as their light increased in intensity, transforht exposed previously unseen runes etched in the walls of the silence rooulfed the chamber in a sea of white

A stream of pictures came unbidden into theone by one, like a slide show, each iical trance, Tescadji, Jenius, Skori, Sedriil, Alaeressionsstorybook