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almost drunk with triumph.
Jael felt a crushing despair. She didn't wholly understand the vision, but
she didn't have to. The vision revealed death and defeat, not just for her,
but for all the realm. She became aware that her hand was immersed in the icy
waters of the pool, and she drew it out.
Her arm moved as though trapped in molasses. As her hand slowly came up and
out of the water, the vision disappeared. She held her hand before her face,
watching the silvery drops fall away, in slow motion.
(What have you done to me?) she cried silently.
javorus' thoughts rose within her own. For a disbelieving moment, she
imagined that she glimpsed sympathy in the warrior's thoughts, and a heartbeat
of hesitation. Then a new resolve swept all that away, and the Enemy's
creature said, (I wish you no liar?n. But I have sealed you into our power,
and now I must bear you away to a place where you will be safe.) (Jayllll!) Ed
wailed, his voice distant and ineffectual.
(Safe?) Jael repeated dully, her hope utterly broken.
(Yes-safe-so that at the proper time, the prophecies will be fulfilled,)
answered the creature named Jarvorus.
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Jael felt herself rising to her feet. jarvorus had turned back into a being
of fire, but no longer did he assume a dragonlike shape.
(Come,) he said, his voice frighteningly melodious in her thoughts.
(It is not too much farther.) She might have tried to resist, but she was
unable. She could not turn away or refuse to move.
Jarvorus controlled her will now.
They left the Pool of Visions, and the glen, and set their feet upon a new
path back into the mountains.
In a distant corner of her mind, she felt the net crinkling, and she heard a
voice calling, as if across a vast distance. It was At's voice, reaching her
at last. He was calling out a desperate warning:
Do not trust... the false-one ... false iffling ... beware of treachery... !
But the warning was far too late.
Chapter 28
THE DRACONAE TilE DRACONAE entered FullSky's mind so swiftly he had no warning
at all. He instinctively reacted to close his thoughts-then realized what he
was doing and ceased resisting. This was what he had come here for. But his
mind was bubbling with questions, and he couldn't get them out.
It was a strange and astonishing contact. The draconae revealed nothing of
themselves, even as they laid open with remarkable clarity his memories and
thoughts. His battles in the underrealm and his contacts with Windrush rose
like great gleaming bubbles in water, expanding and turning for the draconae's
inspection.
(Is he true-?) (Is he alive and true-?) (The Words speak of hope from beyond
death-) (But he has not died-) (He has come from a place more inescapable-)
(Does he bring news of the One-?) (Only the hope-the promise-) (But his
brother-) (Windrush tries to reach us, but the barriers of the Enemy are too
strong-) The questions and observations swirled around him in a tempest. But
the draconae knew and understood far more than he did. He had to get his
questions out, while there was still time!
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(Patience-) (Our son, we know of your needs and your questions-) (We all share
these needs-) He was beginning to feel disoriented, as in a lumenis feeding,
full of fevered passions and sensations bubbling up out of the deep places of
the mind. Was it because of the draconae's probing, or was this the way of
the Dream Mountain, to be a place of confusion, of beautiful sounds and dizzy
wonderment? Or was it, he thought fearfully, the beginning of his kuutekka's
losing contact with his physical body, the beginning of death? He couldn't
tell.
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