Page 98 of Crown of Death

Another flash of sandstonebuildings.

Another of a dark interior, stonewalls.

And like floodgates opening, as I feel five consecutive beats inside my chest,theycome rushingback.

Antoinette.

Helda.

Jafari.

Itsuko.

Edith.

Backward my brain spirals, searching, scrambling for the rightone.

Deserts.

Jungles.

Mountains.

Each place to aname.

Each with alifetime.

Shaku.

La’ei.

Searching, groping through the world, I desperatelyreach.

Untilthere.

Within the walls of a stone castle carved into the side of a mountain, I findit.

Thundering, my heart claims me. Forces me to accept this newlife.

My eyesopen.

And the name slips over mylips.

“Sevan.”

THE END OF BOOKONE

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