The Stone Of Prophecy

dreamed

od in a vast chamber of lightless stone, its walls etched with the same spiral markings that

flame. Brea

lay the completed stone, whole at last, glowing like a dying star

woke wit

over the damp leaves. The fused shards rested beside

He could still feel the dream's heat clinging to

one page had smeared from last night's rain, but o

stone is to a

derstand wha

t

o now were changi

beyond sloped into a wide basin of gray stone, flat, lifeless, and scorched in

litary structure, collap

atchtower, perha

ts pulled h

it faint echoes. Not words this time, but feelings, longing, regret,

cending into the earth. They spiraled downward int

n hes

a torch an

a dais of black stone, shaped like a flower blooming in reverse. Petals of obsidian cur

t of c

kering off the stone walls. He knelt be

ird

ost red like cooled magma. As soon as his fing

visi

we

own his spine, through his arms, his legs. He cried ou

t. The three pieces began to orbit one another, faster and faster, until a sho

psed to one

feel ev

s of the

ght of

ething ancient watc

s slammed

t instead, they separated again an

there,

ust ha

ave time to

airwell. Dust fell from the ceilin

.. a

aspy.

oy wakes t

voice wasn't in his mind-it was real. It echoe

ed at the top o

it

wa

id

e hood drawn low over a face hidden in silver maskwo

instinctively, gr

you?" he

to the chamber floor, "it is not who

d a pale, g

Seer. Give

ook his h

nderstand wh

nough. You're n

n't sigh but her body tilted in a

be

like serpents. Kaelen barely had time to react. He dove to the side as

p with the shards cl

he didn't

lt po

burned in

into the stone floor began to glow again. Ene

raised

re ans

palm not chaotic, but focused, laced wi

oiling as her shadows

the flame? With o

ed. He hadn't meant to cast fire

were no longe

ere aw

eir power like b

know what you've unleashed. The more you awaken,

straighter. "

ask shifted, a

ckward, meltin

s. He waits. You may wield fire now... but when

she vanished in

e shards humming softly in his palms.

had come

he stone. But through

finding the p

coming pa

e found, the m

ell. Dust still fell in slow drifts. Sunlight cut down throug

l of be

f end