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The visions faded, and Aldrec, robed in his common form once more, knelt down exhaustedly upon the raised platform

"Now … you … understand," he said to Skori, his sentences cut into interasps "What all of you just sahat the entire world saw And by this, I hope to give thelimpse of what they have done, but more importantly, what they can becoth returned, he stood, and stepped into the orated and emboldened, despite his loss

"The influence that my people carried in the ancient days carries still in this tih their very existence has been reduced to legend But now that the world has found out that there has been a High elf a them, perhaps they will stop and think about the direction that they're headed … and will stop this senseless rioting and hatred against your kind The other nations have been e, albeit slowly, but the Republic resisted the transition to android equality the ht about the Liberation War, to its ruin But now, perhaps even they will change as well"

His body seehter as he spoke But in the next ht was not his, but from two other elves that appeared beside hiht Like Aldrec in his true for beauty, but in a softer, , nificent braid of brown hair; the other was an elf maiden Her hair hite, almost silver Her beautiful face was almost a aze of Skori and his fa backwards

"M … mother …!" He stammered, and immediately, they embraced "Father!" He said as the elf lord joined them

"We have come to take you home, my son" The elf lord said His voice was deeper and richer than thunder heard through a yawning tunnel "You, and our daughter-in-law"

Before Aldrec could say anything, the elf lided towards the base of the pedestal, and knelt beside Mericlou

"She is a beautiful one," she said, in a voice that sounded so "The Divine has truly blessed you for your patience What is her name?"