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were there, and I didn’t think they needed to know the full extent of what
was happening just yet.’
‘Tell us all, then, my fishy sister,’ Veltan said, grinning at her
outrageously.
‘Of course, moon-boy,’ Zelana replied tartly, and she proceeded to tell
them all; the whale, the pearl, the dream.
‘You’re just making this up, Zelana,’ Veltan scoffed.
‘No, baby brother, I’m not. The pearl - and quite probably that whale
as well - aren’t what they seem to be.’
‘Our sister believes that Mother Sea’s starting to tamper with things,’
Dahlaine said them, ‘and I think she might be right.’
‘Now we come to the interesting part, big brother,’ Zelana said
brightly. ‘Just exactly who and what are these children you so generously
gave us a few years ago?’
‘The Dreamers, of course, Zelana.’ Dahlaine replied just a bit too
quickly.
‘And?’ she pressed.
‘And what?’
‘What else are they, Dahlaine? You’re so obvious most of the time that
the rest of us can see right through you.’
‘You didn’t!’ Veltan exclaimed, his eyes almost popping out as he
stared at Dahlaine.
‘I don’t quite -’ Aracia began. Then her eyes bulged out as well.
‘Dahlaine!’ she gasped.
‘Well,’ he floundered, ‘it was a kind of emergency, wasn’t it?’ he
asked plaintively.
‘Are you insane? Veltan demanded. ‘They can’t be present during our
cycle. The world can’t bear that much weight!’
‘They aren’t very heavy right now,’ Dahlaine replied defensively. ‘I
was careful to blot out their previous memories before I woke them, and I
modified them slightly to make them more closely resemble new-born
man-creatures. They sleep and breathe and eat food instead of light. Their
minds are still infantile, and they have no idea of who - or what – they
really are, so their presence during our cycle won’t make the world
collapse. They’re really nothing more than children, and our cycle will
come to a close before they’re fully mature and realize just who they
actually are.’
‘You’ve put the whole world at risk with this idiocy!’ Aracia flared.
‘Calm yourself, Aracia,’ Zelana said. ‘Now that I’ve had time to catch
my breath, I’m beginning to see what Dahlaine had in mind. If the
hideous thing in the Wasteland is on the verge of moving against us,
we’ll need all the help we can get, and the others have as much to lose as
we do. Besides, we’ve never gotten to know them, have we? They’re
really very sweet. I didn’t particularly like them before, but now that I’ve
gotten to know Eleria, I love her. That was sort of what you had in mind
when you came up with this scheme, wasn’t it, Dahlaine? If we know
them and love them, we can trust them. Isn’t that the short and the long of
this grand plan of yours?’
‘Sometimes you’re so clever you make me sick, Zelana,’ he said
sourly.