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    “So you’re telling us that there’s a whole other world that these shadows can’t get to. Sounds like just another wild rumor to me.” Aaron was irritated. The ড্রাগন had প্রদত্ত plenty of useful information, but the one thing that stuck was the rumor of Eden, a realm that the Shadows could not reach.
    “I think it’s true.” Karaza whispers.
    “You too? Is everyone stuck on rumors? Well then I guess we’ll just waltz on over to wonderland and live the rest of our lives in peace.”
    “It’s not that simple,” Calana ব্যক্ত in a soothing voice, “the Shadows can’t get there because the Door was sealed.”
    “It’s never that simple.” Aaron sighs and sits on a ledge.
    “Wait, I- I saw the Door! It was a bright, glowing light in the back of a cave.” Karaza turns to address everyone. “I- I’ve been having visions, something to do with this.” She pulls the dragon scale out of its hiding place, “It showed me the way.”
“That’s wonderful.” Aaron উত্তর sarcastically. “We’ll talk about it আরো in the morning. Sven, first watch. Good night.” He lies over and covers himself with a thin blanket.
    “What is wrong with him?” Vilicus asks.
    “He’s not into fairy-tales.” Sven replies. Karaza glares at Aaron’s back and walks towards the cave opening. “Where are আপনি off to?”
    “Not far away.” She responds. “Oh, and আপনি know what else is a fairy-tale? Dragons.”
    ”Feisty one, isn’t she?” Vilicus asks Calana.
    “Yes, she has আগুন in her.” Calana watches Karaza as she climbs the slope দ্বারা the cave.
    “I know what I saw.” Karaza sits alone on the mountainside far above the cave. “There is a Door, a gateway into another world.” She pulls out the scale and stares at it. “Why won’t আপনি speak to me? Why only প্রদর্শনী me your memories, আপনি horrid beast!”
    “Is something wrong…?”
    “Yes! Your words are not meant for me! It’s as if I don’t exist! As if আপনি don’t care that an entire world is covered in darkness, and is dying!” Karaza grips the scale, cutting herself on the edges. “Why? Just… why?” Why is it that no one ever cares about me? Karaza starts to cry.
    “Why do আপনি weep, little one?” came a voice from nowhere.
    “Because this world is dead, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.”
    Calana snakes her head up, and looks sadly at Karaza. “Dead, আপনি say? Yet we live, অথবা are we naught but phantoms?”
    “I- I don’t know, the world has become so cold, and dark. Maybe this is the land of the dead.” Karaza looks at the blood on her hand, barely feeling the pain.
    “Child, আপনি bleed, is that not proof enough that we live?” As Calana spoke, she eased herself closer, easily scaling the mountainside as she came level with Karaza. “As long as there is life, there is hope. Let me প্রদর্শনী you.”
    “What?” Before Karaza could protest, she felt Calana’s mind push on hers, and the mountainside vanished.
    Karaza was alone, she was hurt and afraid, they were gone, taken দ্বারা the darkness. She knew she was next, she could sense the dark ones coming back… Darkness, brief flashes of light, scenes of horror, all made worse দ্বারা the fact that it was her, despite the protests of her tortured mind, she was the উৎস of the suffering she saw… A faint voice, musical, but incomprehensible, calls to her, piercing the darkness, freeing her mind from its bonds, giving her life once more.
    “This is all I can do for you.” Calana withdraws, her own eyes holding tears. “Good-night, little one.”