Her eyes imploring, Callista replied, “When you have spent many years as I have studying these prophecies, you learn how to interpret them and how to recognise the signs that they are about to begin. Trust me. I don"t like this any more than you do, but to ignore the Book would be a disastrous mistake.”
“To walk into Meraxor without an army would be a dangerous mistake,” Raven mumbled, turning away from his mother. Soren watched their argument in silence.
“What else would you have me do?” Callista"s voice was strained and tense. “Soren and Deacon have a rapid degenerative illness, and no medicine we have can heal them.”
“You don"t know that! Kyra said she doesn"t know of anything, but maybe doctors back in Nazaki do!” Raven shouted.
Kyra shook her head slowly from side to side. Callist
