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said that they would be done by midday.” He said. He turned from the fire and looked at Milo. “Milo, you must be getting going. Lyrah will tell you how to get to the place. It seems a few recent events may have given us more time. Rezzifer and I have to go now. There is much to do.” And with those words, Abraham and Rezzifer left with a few sudden leaps. Milo looked at Lyrah, who was still wearing the distant look she had the night before.
                  “Lyrah?” he asked, “are you alright?”
                  She looked sick. She responded, “Yes. I'm just not feeling good. Did you get any sleep last night?”
                  Milo remembered. “Yeah, a little bit. I had a strange dream that woke me up in the middle of the night, but I fell back asleep okay. What about you? Did you have any troubles?”
                  “A little bit,” She said. “What was your dream about?”
                  Milo tried to remember, but now it was difficult to pick out the details. “I’m not sure, exactly. I was walking through destruction. There was fog everywhere and I couldn't see a thing. And then I’m not really sure what happened.”
                  “Weird,” She said, looking away from Milo. “So Abraham told you what’s happening, right?”
                  “Yes, I’m supposed to find one of your allies. Who is it?”
                  Lyrah pointed to the stone table. On the surface of the table, carved into the stone, was a map of Pæraleth. Milo hadn’t noticed this before. She moved her finger to Havensheil. “Here is where we are now,” Then she drifted her finger across the map down South of Salem to the Lazrai Plains. Her finger landed on a small tree that was drawn on the map, in the middle of the plains.  “And here is where you need to be. The man who lives here is a relative of Mr. Alwin. He lives in an old wooden house.”
                  “Abraham said we may have gotten more time,” Milo started, “exactly how much more time?”
                  “I don’t think we have more than a week,” said Lyrah.
                  “Why me?” asked Milo.
                  “What do you mean?”
                  “Why am I going away, and nobody with me?”
                  “If you’re quick, you won’t draw any attention. Charlie’s focus right now is on us –he thinks you’re here.”
                  “What happens then?”
                  “At some point, Abraham will need you back here. I don’t know what for, but you won’t be out there for long. They told me the man there will have something for you.” Lyrah said, “I wasn’t told what exactly.”
                  “Can you think of anything I could expect?”
                  “From him? Not really.”
                  “You know him?”
                  “I talked to him once,” Lyrah’s words broke when the door burst open. Inside came several lynxes chatting away. “We should go,” said Lyrah.
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                  Milo and Lyrah stood on top of the hill that they had crossed when they arrived at Havensheil. It was time for Milo to leave. There was no snowfall this morning.
                  “Are you going to be fighting with them?” Milo asked. Lyrah still looked sick and pale.
                  “Not unless I have to.” Lyrah said. She looked around at Havensheil as she spoke, “I don’t let anyone boss me around, but my abilities are useful to them, and they provide a home. I would go with you if I could.”
                  Milo felt the darkness creeping back again, weaving its way through the most intense strings of his mind, ripping at his feelings of hope.
                  “I will see you again,” said Lyrah.
    Milo