Anya's Second Chance

of the Concl

rodigies, now free from direct control bu

them, bewilder

kept insisting. "They

tched with worry, approa

was done to them," Ther

ew who possess the knowledge for such a

usive order of healers, their wisdom root

lder Theron, and the now-subdued Mica

ncient, luminous trees, their h

eyes like polished a

communion with his spirit, her

ew back, her ex

, her voice a soft rustle

elt a

heron asked. "W

diseased organ. But the Heartlight is the very core of a Shep

omething?" Anya asked, thinking of t

has been replaced. With the E

sp went through

dark, parasitic dimension Seraphina clearly served. They

lker essence to feed on the host's residual spiritual energy. It is nearing its

n asked, his voic

he Stalker essence and the Shadow Seed he also carries. What Se

tening in a daze, final

yes wide with horror. "Se

n with such quiet authority,

e Vale was heavy with

th, his very identity, stolen and

orrow for him, for the

as now tinged wit

nning, far more depraved

through a narrow mountain pa

aturally, coalescing

gloom

weapons that seemed

, drawing his staff, which p

hem, seasoned protectors,

tle was