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He took her hand and kissed it "We will build it in the new land It will look the same Someday, our Family will return and claim it once more We will rebuild it, Lia We will rebuild them all"

She squeezed his hand "Make it thus so," she whispered

Epilogue

My dearest daughter This tome is my only opportunity to speak to you with my own voice If all has happened as I have foreseen, you are on a ship bound to a new land I provided instructions that this portion should not be read to you, but that you ed to be able to do I have watched you from afar, from the very shores of Idumea It is there that your mother and I await your return You have been tasked to open the gates that bind the worlds together and you have set in motion the destruction of the hetaera You have been faithful, obedient, and courageous I am so proud of you

In this tome, you will learn about your future and the future of our Family Your work is not yet done You and your husband and your children and their wives and husbands will be kings and queens in the new land I have left you my tome to aid you that you may rule in wisdom and humility When I sent you to Muirwood, I trusted you would learn the pains and feelings of coh reed and beauty of the rich and the powerful

I have seen deeply into the future, reat role in events to cos and wisdoenerations yet unborn In the future I have seen your posterity will chain and shackle Ereshkigal for all tiil She knows this is her destiny, which is why she has persecuted our Fa for she will always seek to subvert them Sos is a poor medium in which to express a father’s love Clasp this toh the true Mediuer than death and deeper than the depths of Sheol We await you, beloved daughter We offered up our lives that you in the destiny of our Family

Your servant,

Alluwyn Lleu-Iselin

Father