‘You could be,’ Hawklan agreed. ‘But you neither look nor sound mad to me, and, in my experience, mad people rarely ask that question. Besides, it seems from what you’ve said so far that, figments of your imagination or not, we’re preferable to the company you’ve just left. Finish your story before you ponder your sanity. What did your father do about this advice he was receiving?’
Gentren gave a slight shrug. ‘What could he do? He was concerned. These men were capable and highly respected. But they offered him no advice about what he should do. Their researches told them nothing except that this... alignment... was coming, and coming soon and that it would bring great destruction — possibly the destruction of the entire world. Concerned or not, he was a practical man. How could he prepar
