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behind me and she gave
a little nod of recognition. I assumed the Redians were bowing to
her in formal fashion. “Yes, we’re from Galad Kas.”
    I gently pulled the blanket off the child’s
head and stared in awe of his beauty. He had his mother’s auburn
hair, but it was straight. The back of his hair was worn long
enough to just touch his shoulders. The front reached his jaw. He
only had about seven white Sallybreaths dotting his dark locks.
    “I don’t understand. How can your son be
dying of illness if he’s a Salynn?”
    She gave a barely-there, bitter smile. “His
father was human.”
    I smiled. “I thought marriage to humans was
rare among Galad Kasians.”
    “Marriage is rare.”
    “I see,” I said and nodded my
understanding.
    She looked at her son. “He was a traveling
cloth merchant and came to Galad Kas often. We fell in love and
conceived our baby our first night together. I wanted to leave
Galad Kas and be with him, but he told me didn’t think it was fair
to me that I should commit to him, since he was a human and I was a
Salynn. So, regrettably, I stayed and had Cairikson on my own.
    “He came to visit more often but because
Salynns age slower”—her eyes filled with tears again—“he never saw
Cairikson grow out of infancy before he died of the same disease my
baby has now.” She covered her eyes with one hand, composed herself
for a moment, then looked at her son again. “I left Galad Kas when
I found out. First I wanted to try to find where he’d been buried,
but then Cairikson fell ill as we traveled and my quest quickly
became a search for a human Herbest who might be able to cure this
human disease. Years of searching have led from one dead end to the
next, and now I don’t know what to do.”
    The story of Cairikson’s father oddly
reminded me of Derweldo, Rabryn’s father. Derweldo’s death had
never made sense to me since I’d found out my brother and he were
Salynns, but perhaps Derweldo’s father had been a human as well,
and thus able to die of illness.
    I looked back at the Redians. “Addredoc, can
you do anything?”
    “Perhaps. But I would need to know what’s
wrong with him first. I can’t even diagnose it. It’s completely
alien to me.”
    I looked down at Cairikson’s precious face.
He was so sick. He probably wouldn’t live to see his birthday in
two weeks. Well, I had something to say about that! I rested my
hand on the boy’s burning forehead and poured my magic into him. I
would not let him die! First my hand began glowing white,
and then so did Cairikson’s entire body.
    I smiled. “Open your eyes, little one,” I
whispered.
    His eyes opened to reveal the biggest most
stunning pair of blue-green eyes I’d ever seen. I heard Nekinda
wail her son’s name, and from the corner of my eye I saw her try to
reach for him, but my brother stepped forward and held her
back.
    “Hello sweetheart,” I whispered softly to the
boy. “We’re going to make you all better now, okay?”
    I saw my own glowing white eyes reflecting in
his eyes, and I stared into the whiteness of them. Soon, a darkness
in my sight developed, which I somehow recognized as his illness. I
couldn’t really describe it except that it was there, and it was
huge. It was killing this little Salynn boy before he even had a
chance to live.
    I focused my sight on the darkness of the
disease that was growing and multiplying rapidly, and concentrated
my magic into it. Soon the edges of the darkness began glowing
white and, unbelievably, began to shrink. I watched, half stunned
and trying to concentrate, as the spreading illness got smaller and
smaller until finally it was completely gone and all I could see
was the white light of my eyes.
    I withdrew my magic, and immediately the room
began to spin. I felt suddenly weak enough to pass out for at least
a week. I forced myself to stay awake as I smiled down at the
child. My pounding headache from forcing unconsciousness away was
worth it to be