Derya stared at the words for a long while before she had the guts to read them, sensing that her scroll would contain something even worse than keeping secrets.
As the words unfolded, the hollow feeling in her stomach became deeper. From the tone of the prophet, the odds were even that Argana would either not give up her magic or that Margana would find a way to interfere. Without the heart stone, Bailey was not as powerful as her ancestor. The prophet seemed to think the wiser choice would be for Bailey to take Merlath's magic, but he was almost sure she would be too pure of heart to kill her kin in cold blood. Without Argana, we cannot unite the heart stone and without it, Bailey could not execute the spell and ward of Margana.