As one of his father"s Keepers, Alaric was expected to help hold space when the prophets gathered, to help contain the shared vision and the excess of energy that might be released.
He waited outside the hedges with Brian and Victoria while the three prophets who had answered his father"s call were receiving instruction from his father. Of the three, only Riley had ever been in the presence of the orb. Alaric didn"t know the other two at all. The oldest of them, Delma Reeves, was a woman from Minnesota, her thick hair still gold with touches of silver, her eyes dark, almost haunted. The youngest, Freddie, was barely seventeen, a young man that had traveled with his mother to be there.
Both had a gift at least as strong as Riley"s, though neither of them were as trained. The basic idea wa
