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A Perfect Circle
Jesse had first watched little Dain Rhiagain handed over to a man, who later in his visions he learned to know as Steward Rhiagain of Rushwood. The steward and his wife renamed him, though this new name had nothing to with his prior name or life. They were not told anything about the poor, unwanted little boy. He came to them without an identity, the childless couple becoming a new hope for his future.
So they called him Drystan, a family name of the Sylvaines. Drystan had a deep reddish hair, and striking eyes one did not quickly forget. They were a flecked gray, like the ash of a long-dead fire, and as he aged, and his baby cheeks gave way to the finer chiseling of a young man, they became his most prominent trait. Drystan’s first love was a girl named Gretchen, an
