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one he carried. He began to get giddy and then finally drowsy as Loracia tried to explain to Fayne how to use her new staff. This was the second time Loracia had summoned him to her, and both times, he became unbearably sleepy the longer he stayed in her presence.
    “Awaken!” Loracia commanded. “I have placed a Lora Daine in your bedchambers.” Vesperin felt his eyes close. Loracia shook him awake and spoke close to his face. “Are you listening to me? I had a special Lora Daine placed in your bedchamber. Tell no one you have it. The dragons have forbidden the use of Lora Daines by anyone but dragons and dragon knights. If you are found to carry one, the dragons will take it from you or render it useless. You and Fayne are to use it tonight. I will have one of my followers there to guide you on your task. The time has come for you two to serve me as you have prayed all these seasons.”
    Vesperin opened his eyes to praise Loracia and tell her of his great honor, but found himself in his bed. It took him a moment to regain his bearings. He went to the window and realized he was still in the ruined city of By’temog. Judging by the sun, it was at least midday. He jumped to alert when he heard a low moan coming from the opposite side of his bed. Fayne pulled herself up by clutching the bedpost.
    “Fayne? What are you doing in here?”
    “We were trying to get your staff out of the crack in the floor. That’s the last thing I remember before being in the presence of Loracia.” She opened her hand and found her staff there, shrunken to the size of a sewing needle. Vesperin realized he, too, was clutching something tightly in his fist. He opened his hand to find the companion staff. Immediately he began searching around the room, looking for the Lora Daine. He found the stone under his feather pillow.
    Fayne sat on the edge of his bed. “Something is nagging me,” she said. “Maybe I should have gone with Trendan and Sanmir to Lux Enor.”
    “You have done the right thing by staying here with me. Trendan and Sanmir will rescue Kimala. You and I have the will of our goddess to fulfill.”
    “It is a worthy calling, but I can’t help but wonder why she only comes in our dreams. It doesn’t seem odd to you?”
    Vesperin joined Fayne and sat down on the bed. “It doesn’t seem odd to me at all. I have been in her presence once before. We were cornered at Signal Hill by abominations to our goddess. I was injured, and she saved my life. She said I was not to die because I had a great purpose to accomplish. She told me this day would come and that I would know how to serve her.” He took Fayne’s hand in his. “Fayne, I do know how to serve her.”
    “Did she mention me?”
    “No, but I don’t see why she would at the time.”
    “There is something I need to tell you.” Fayne let out a sigh, and Vesperin knew whatever she was about to tell him was difficult for her. “I know who your people were. I know where you came from. My mother found out about your people during a difficult time in her life. For a time, she was corrupted, and she left me, my father, and my sister. She will not talk about where she went or what happened, but when she returned, she stole me away and convinced my father that she killed me.”
    “That’s terrible. I thought your mother was a spy for Enowene.”
    “Wait, there’s more. Let me finish. She took me deep into the Jagged Mountains where I was raised by a man named Geron. He taught me the ways of the clerics of Loracia, and he told me of you. He said you were the last of a once great people called the Noanas, and that it was my destiny to . . .” She hesitated.
    “Aye, go on,” Vesperin said.
    “It was my destiny to be with you, and together, we would be powerful.”
    Vesperin nodded. He didn’t quite know what to make of her story. “In what way? What else did he say?”
    “I feel foolish telling you all this. My mother told me I shouldn’t.”
    “Your mother told you