CHAPTER 19
You cannot hide from your fears.
You cannot run away from those who are
dreaming and plotting to
do you harm.
-FROM THE BOOK OF ST. ALBANS-
We all sat around in a circle with Ursala in the middle and fully commanding our complete attention as she waited for Hakim and Bellus to sit down between the Mauk and the twins. Ursala had asked for this. She wanted to speak to all of us. She said it was vitally important. So important I should summon Ankor Mauk and his nephews back from Malagna to join us.
The voice coming out of the child was Ursala’s. But not the child we knew. The Ursala I was hearing was the one we had met a few weeks earlier in the Netherworld. The adult Ursala, the one who had shown us there were other possibilities in which our war against the Hartooth and th
