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‘He’s brighter than I thought he was,’ Veltan told his sisters. ‘If we
awaken the others before the end of our cycle, we can raise them as if
they were our children and prepare them for anything that might happen
after we’ve gone to our rest.’
‘And then they can return the favor at the end of their cycle,’ Zelana
added. ‘I get to mother Eleria this time, and then she mothers me next
time.’
‘It sounds fair to me,’ Veltan said. Then he paused. ‘We’ve been
strangers to the others for far too long, I think. We all have the same
responsibilities, so a bit of cooperation might be in order. I’m still not too
happy that you didn’t tell the rest of us what you had in mind, Dahlaine,
but we can set that aside for now. What’s next?’
‘First off,’ Zelana said, ‘I don’t think we want to get too specific about
what’s happening when we’re speaking with our Dreamers. They’re still
children, and children are impressionable, no matter what their species.
We don’t want to contaminate their dreams by explaining what these
dreams really mean. Mother Sea might not like that very much, and she
might decide to exile all four of us to the moon, not just Veltan.’
‘You’re probably right, Zelana,’ Dahlaine agreed. ‘Let’s keep the
dreams as pure as we possibly can.’ He scratched at his chin
speculatively. ‘We’ve got a problem now,’ he said. ‘This first dream is
likely to bring the creatures from the Wasteland swarming across the
mountains, and our people won’t be a match for them. I think we’ll have
to bring in the outsiders.’
‘Absolutely out of the question!’ Aracia exclaimed. ‘Our people are
pure and innocent. The outsiders are barbaric monsters. They’re almost as
bad as the creatures of the Wasteland.’
‘Not quite, Aracia,’ Dahlaine disagreed. ‘We can manipulate them if
we need to. The only problem I can see is linguistic. The outsiders don’t
speak the same language our people speak.’
‘That’s not a problem, Dahlaine,’ Veltan told him. ‘I’ve looked in on
several of the outsider cultures. Their babbling didn’t make any sense at
first, but I found a way to get around that.’
‘Oh?’ Dahlaine said. ‘I’d like to hear about that.’
‘All you have to do is step around language and go straight to thought.’
‘He has a point, Dahlaine,’ Zelana said. ‘It didn’t take me much more
than a week to learn the language of my dolphins. If you listen with your
mind instead of your ears, it comes very fast.’
‘Interesting notion,’ Dahlaine mused. ‘Unfortunately, I don’t think
people could do that.’
Veltan shrugged. ‘I’ll do it for them, then.’
‘Would you like to clarify that, Veltan?’ Aracia asked.
‘It’s a little complicated, dear sister,’ he replied. ‘Are you sure you
want all the details?’
 Aracia shuddered. ‘Spare me that, please. Just tell me what the results
are likely to be.’
‘The outlanders will babble in their own language, and our people will
babble in ours. Neither group will hear babbles, though. They’ll think that
they’re listening to their own language, so they’ll understand each other
perfectly.’