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"But she will find the Mother if that is her purpose! She will find the Mother! Perhaps she will come to realize that she can take to the air as the Mother can, and she will cover the miles in the blink of an eye when that discovery is made

"But she will find the Mother I know it And there can be but one outcome Either Mekare will perish; or the Mother will perish, and with the Mother so shall all of us

"Mekare's strength is equal to reater It is equal to the Mother's; and she may draw from her madness a ferocity which no one can now measure or contain

"I am no believer of curses; no believer of prophecy; the spirits that taught s deserted o But Mekare believed the curse when she uttered it It ca; she set it into , of the sources of her rancor, which surely feed the desire for revenge

"Mekareabout the fulfill for us all And if she does not destroy Akasha, if we do not destroy Akasha, ill be the outcoun to do Can the world stop this thing if the world understands nothing of it? That it is i, yet certainly vulnerable; with the power to crush, yet skin and bone that can be pierced or cut? This thing that can fly, and read hts; yet can be burnt itself?

"How can we stop her and save ourselves, that is the question I want to live, as I have alanted it I do not want to close my eyes on this world I do not want those I love to cole in my mind to find some way to protect them Is this evil of me? Or are we not a species, and do we not share the desire of any species to live on?

"Hearken to everything that I've told you of the Mother To what I've said of her soul, and of the nature of the demon that resides in her-its core wedded to her core Think on the nature of this great invisible thing which animates each one of us, and every blood drinker who has ever walked

"We are as receptors for the energy of this being; as radios are receptors for the invisible waves that bring sound Our bodies are no o described it-blossole vine

"Examine this mystery For if we examine it closely perhaps we can yet find a way to save ourselves

"And I would have you exalewhich I have ever learned

"In those early times, when the spirits spoke towould have believed that the spirits were irrelevant things? Even ere captives of their power, thinking it our duty to use the gifts we possessed for the good of our people, just as Akasha would later believe

"For thousands of years after that, the firm belief in the supernatural has been part of the human soul There were times when I would have said it was natural, cheredient in the hu without which humans could not prosper, let alone survive

"Again and again we have witnessed the birth of cults and religions-the dreary proclaation of the creeds inspired by these 'events '

"Travel the cities of Asia and Europe-behold the ancient teod in which his hyh theand sculpture that dazzles and humbles the soul

"How great seems that achievement; the very ious belief