Chapter Nineteen: Returning HomeElves were not prone to black sleep, so when awareness finally returned to Aeron three days later, he was gripped with a great sense of loss. His dreams had been unpleasant, with images of fingers clawing through grey sacs. When he woke up, he found himself in the cave he and Melia had sheltered in, after Tamsyn had come so fortuitously to their rescue. As he sat up, a feeling of uneasiness gripped him.
At least he knew his return to lucidity meant he was on the road to recovery after the battle with the river daughters. Though he felt tired still, there was none of the debilitating fatigue or the life-draining exhaustion that imperilled him during the fight.
Sitting up, Aeron saw Tamsyn staring at him from across the small cave. A fire was burning in the
