Chapter 78

Caught and caged--was that it, then? Was Lind little more than a prison for the one they purported to serve and protect? Dallin would like to know what sort of lives of Wil's predecessors had been lived. Had they devoted themselves to their purpose willingly, or were the Old Ones no better than Siofra, snipping a child from his roots, molding him into what they deemed he should be?

"What danger am I to you?" Wil asked softly.

Dallin wished Wil hadn't. Dallin was close to knowing. He wasn't sure how, and logical explanations for the fantastic, or even the mundanely odd, had stopped being important some time ago--'what is' was what was important now.