16
HEALING
Rashel had hoped to never need this, but she reached for the white candle Yeolani had left her, and with her hands still trembling, she lit it with a taper from her fire, holding it high. As she waited, she looked around her house and realized that she would have to do a lot of explaining if this Honiea were to come. A baby given by fairies, a magician passed out on her bed, and a dead man with an arrow sticking out of his side. What would the Queen of Healing think on her arrival?
The flash of light was exactly like the one that had brought Yeolani, except hers was lavender light, whereas his glow shown golden, like him. And the Queen of Healing stood in the cabin looking like she was any other villager come to deliver honey or buy some cheese. Rashel blew out the candle and
