Dina saluted. "Yes Ma'am." "Good woman," Anala said, and watched the captain go back to her duties. Yarrow was back. Anala felt hope for the first time in too long. Lares He'd not seen Caelum in the library since before the fifth. He'd continued to go, for some reason -- mainly so he wouldn't have to think anymore. He couldn't bear to think about anything anymore. Lares didn't know why Caelum had been researching Umbra and the Twisted Sisters, but he had a small suspicion. So he continued to do the research, hoping he'd find something of use for the Consort. It was, strangely enough, the one thing left in the Vocan's life to give him meaning. He was puzzling out a particular passage in a very old book when Anala found him. "What are ye doing, Lares?" her tone was one of exasperated

