LYSSARA
Three words and a fourth line, and I was sitting on the edge of my bed at midnight, holding the message in both hands and understanding that the machinery I had felt turning from a distance for months had just shifted into a gear I had not been prepared for.
I had read Kaelrith knows. He has been coming approximately eleven times since Thalric's wolf handed me the message on the terrace, and each reading produced the same result, which was that the words were accurate and irrefutable and that I did not yet have the correct response to them, and that the absence of a correct response was not going to slow anything down.
I put the message under my pillow beside the document, and I lay in the dark, and I listened to Ashfen's forest, and this time the night insects had come back, an
