Desisida was completely puzzled. “But, master, do you mean the people we met on the road were only acting? Were their issues fake ones, set up in order to try me?”
“No, dear Desisida”, his superior reassured him. “That would not have been necessary. For, you see, one may take any road, any day, and meet people in need of one's help or advice. All it took was to wait for what Fate had in store for you on this day. Throughout the whole track you rode on, over the whole length of the road bringing you here from Lothriel, you have been followed by a envoy of ours, watching and listening to everything, then to go ahead of you and bring his report to our Council”.
My friend sat upon a stone wall, one of those squaring the perimeter of the parvis of the ancient temple. After watching the pebble
