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the portal states that only the true heir of Hara may open it.” Councilor Orin spoke for the entire Council in the bland tone only an Alvian could achieve.
    Here he was discussing the most significant find since colonizing this planet, and he couldn’t even work up a grin. Harry felt truly sorry for his Alvian Brethren. They really didn’t know what they were missing.
    Having had some time to find a new place once their scientists had realized their sun was in the final stages of its useful life, the Alvians had sent Hara, their greatest explorer, to survey a number of planets. He’d sent back information about a few likely candidates before losing touch with the mother planet for good.
    The home planet had been evacuated years later, just before their star went supernova, dispersing their population in massive colony ships—each sent in a different direction. The one that had finally found Earth, centuries later due to the difficulties of crossing interstellar space, had sent an unmanned device ahead. That deadly device had changed the earth in ways humans could never have prepared for or fought against. Circling the globe with orbital pods, the device had seeded the earth with shards of Alvia Prime’s home crystal, retuning the earth’s crystal deposits with devastating effect. Tsunamis, earthquakes, even volcanic eruptions had plagued the planet for years and most humans had perished.
    Even when they’d found out about the human population, the Alvians on the colony ship had already been so devoid of emotion they had merely shrugged it off as a slight miscalculation. They didn’t care. They couldn’t care. It had simply been bred out of them.
    All that would change now. Harry’s gift of foresight had shown him images of the future that were troubled and inconclusive. He had compared notes with his uncle Caleb, who had even stronger clairvoyance than Harry. Caleb believed the things they had seen offered hope for both races sharing this small planet. After hearing the Council’s news, the images began to make even more sense. Caleb had been seeing frozen people for weeks.
    “May I ask if the site is buried in ice and snow?”
    A sharp look was as close as Orin could come to showing surprise. “The portal is at the bottom of a crevasse, according to our information. How did you know?”
    “The Oracle Caleb O’Hara has been seeing people frozen in ice for weeks now.”
    Harry didn’t see anything wrong in reporting something that had been recorded in one or two of his mother’s scientific reports. She was studying Uncle Caleb, and he was required to report the content of his visions, though he didn’t tell her everything. Not by a long shot.
    Orin and a few other Councilors shuffled data sheets on their table. Harry was glad of the momentary distraction as a compulsion overtook him. A feeling of knowing . The next best thing to a full-fledged vision. He looked to Councilor Markus’s seat and the pretty young girl sitting behind him. Roshin 72. The girl he’d called Ro when she’d fumbled her papers in the hallway.
    He saw her and a vision of a rose. A sweet, brightly blooming, flaming-red rose. Roshin held the flower and she was smiling, truly smiling. Her eyes were filled with happy tears as she gazed at him and sniffed the delicate blossom in her hands.
    Harry blinked, but the double vision—that of the real world and the imagery of the vision—persisted. She was special. That’s when he knew he had to keep her near him. His instinct was to protect her at all costs. No matter if he had to drag her to the North Pole and back. He had to keep her with him. She was that important.
    “Yes, I see the notation here in Mara 12’s last report. The subject reports seeing people in ice along with his nephew, Hara, and a young Alvian female.”
    Harry was surprised by that last bit. Caleb hadn’t mentioned the girl to him, but Harry saw his opening and took it.
    “Councilors, if I may,” he demanded their