concluded with the

imposter among h

re calm, their

t of dread and

, showed no outward sig

his presence radiating a

A horrifying

as nowhere

ed to the Vale, Anya s

book-lined room that smelled o

voice gentle. "You

as an unde

osed t

ething you must see. And

Resonance Cryst

is morning, in a clearing. With

urrowed. "Micah?

," Any

vated th

it, the sounds of Micah and Seraphina' s c

shifting from disbelief to co

ended, he was silen

y said. "His Aegis of Light disc

at tight. "There is m

his will sound impossible. B

he to

ryt

r own death. The

ancient eyes fixed on

rrupt. He did n

e silence in the room

distant. "The sacred energies sometimes

yed. "And yet, Micah shows no sign of spiritual d

ture I saw, after Seraphina... vanished... he claimed to

to the window, looking

ls me you speak a truth too terrible to invent,

her. "This Seraphi

Micah brought Sera

en

ted healer, that he had resc

heir Luminary, accepted h

them, her sto

m from her nightmare,

avel, Seraphina a

" in nearby settlement

ger used the specific sacred rites of the She

d by Anya's forekno

s," he told the council of Elders. "Anya's warnin

ines, strengthening the wards around the Vale, all d

cused on Bro

erd who had taken the Vow of Stillness years ago.

her horrific past, a moment where Finnian'

, observations about the Vale's energies

ep eyes holding a q

in the swirling c

nclave of Orders

communities, held every decad

ife, it was a pla

it would be

nce would spread t

to witness it, to find a way to