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he whispered
in her ear.
    “Mira came to me a couple of nights ago. She
gave me the gift of that time and took away my dreams. The memories
are still there, but I can handle them now. That hasn’t changed my
resolve though. I will never watch one of my own perish again. Not
while I have life to stop it.” Galena gritted her teeth, the
determination that she felt apparent in the hardness of her
voice.
    “Just make sure to take care of you as well.
If you go, I will follow.” Elenio buried his face in her hair.
    Galena turned her face so that she was
looking at Elenio and kissed him gently. “I’ll do my best,” she
whispered with a ghost of a smile on her face.
    “How far do you think we have before we get
back to the village?” Elenio asked, changing the subject
abruptly.
    “We’ve been traveling for about a week, so I
would say about a week or two more. If we don’t have to stop at any
villages like the last time, it may be quicker.”
    Twoit came over and climbed onto Galena’s lap
before curling up into a ball. She rested her head on her paws,
closed her eyes, and fell asleep. Galena scratched the ferret’s
head while she watched the fire.
    “We’ll make it in time,” Elenio said,
answering the question still floating around in her mind.
    She smiled at his reassurance, but didn’t
feel comforted by it, as he seemed to be.
    “Let’s get to sleep so we can get an earlier
start.”
    Yawning at the thought of sleep, Galena
nodded her head before quickly creating a tree bed, complete with a
leaf layer for comfort. The thought of sleep no longer teased her,
but called to her gently with promises of rest and renewal.
    Elenio stood and offering a hand, which
Galena took, pulled her to her feet. She stretched and took in her
surroundings, before heading to bed where Elenio was already lying
and pulling a blanket over himself. She looked up through the trees
and found the stars above winking down at her with the ability to
ward away the night and the evil things that hid there. She climbed
into bed, pulling the blankets over her as she did. As soon as her
head hit the leaves, she drifted off into a world without
dreams.
    Galena opened her eyes to find herself in the
middle of nowhere and nothing. She noticed a dim light and found
the source of it immediately. Galena was startled to see Mira, once
surrounded by blinding, white light was a mere shadow of her former
glory. She seemed to flicker in and out of Galena’s vision. The
more Galena tried to focus, the worse the flickering became. She
found that if she focused on the area around Mira, the goddess’s
image stayed put a little better.
    “What has happened to you?” Galena asked in
horror at the goddess’s fallen state.
    “Haulua grows stronger every hour. His rage
has consumed him and given him more power than any of us realized.
My brothers and I grow weak with our fight,” the goddess answered
in a voice full of weariness.
    “But you were just fine a couple of days
ago,” Galena nearly shouted, panic filling her.
    “Weeks, days, hours, and minutes, they are
all the same to the gods. Time is different for us. I don’t have
long for visits such as these. It wears on me further and I need
all my strength to contain Haulua. You must hurry for the war is
beginning. Rau has sent an army to put a stop to your brother and
the elves he has trained. If they are to succeed in the end, you
will have to be a part of the battles. Do not stop other than to
rest, for your timing will almost be too short. Travel southeast
and you will find them here.”
    Galena saw in her mind’s eye a picture of a
small valley covered in the dead grass of a retreating winter. On
the nearest side, were the elves and their camp. The dark creatures
consumed the far side. She knew the area, for they had traveled
through it on their way to the Western woods. It was a few days
journey from the village of Corista, where Tark stayed behind.
    “Why have they stayed so close to