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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 953707" data-attributes="member: 9255">UNDER A DARKSUNSEGMENT 082“Snapping of the Mind”The store had a just moved in feel.  Wrapped packages lay here and there.  Some labeled some not.  The Silent One was just moving to this residence from the appearance of things.  Cosa felt homesick for the first time since leaving Nibenay.The first floor was to be a store or display area.  Behind a curtained area, were stairs leading up.  The Silent One was up these stairs.  She was slender and had a pale complexion.  She stared at a small mirror.  A treasure in and of itself.  The old man motions for the couple to sit down on a straw mat, which they do.  He then seems distracted and leaves to the downstairs.  It sounds like another person is at the entrance but outside.  The Silent One turns gracefully and smoothly as if floating on air rather than walking.  It unnerves Mania a bit.  Then he looks closer at her features.  He becomes very unnerved now.  Not seeing this, Cosa begins once The Silent One has taken a seat across from them on the mat.“We were sent here to-““Not by a Spirit, though he would have, but by a druid.  Yes, I can see it in your mind.” Says the Silent One.“She…Okay .  You talk.  That shouldn’t surprise me.  This will be so much easier then.  We came to you on the off chance you may be able my friend.  His known name is Mania.  It has come to our notice that his doesn’t know whom his father really was.  It was suggested recently that his father was…well a force of great evil.  A powerful man.  Possibly even a Sorcerer-King.  He…we seek advice on how to discover his true roots.”The Silent One sits looking at the two.  A moment goes by then she exhales sharply.  “That which you seek will find you in his own due time.  I sense that his father still lives.  I sense…nothing of his mother.”  A noticeable haunted look comes over her face.  Mania has yet to take his eyes off of her.Though spoken quietly, it shatters the silence.  He speaks but one word…a name- “Kara.”A pleased look crosses her face.  “You remember me Mania.  That is wonderful.”  A genuine look of happiness and ease appears on Kara’s features now.“You used to visit me…as a child.  You…You’re pyreen.”Cosa is stunned.“Yes I am.  I try to hide it these days.  I had…bad business with a certain ruler in Tyr whom would prefer me dead….and you perhaps also.”“I have done nothing to him.  I never even been in Tyr…I think.” Says Mania in a subdued voice.  Memories are crashing into his mind again.  A tear wells in his right eye.  “I…I…”  He is unable to finish the thought.  Panicked and uncertain of the unfolding events Cosa holds him and glares at the pyreen.“What did you do to him?”“I am sorry.  In my first glance into his mind I seemed to have awoken memories.  Memories that have been long hidden.  Hidden by himself as a mere child.”“I can help him no more.  However, you, I can.”“I asked for nothing of you and after seeing how the peacebringers do business I would never ask.”  Hurt and concern in her voice for Mania.A clay pot and a small bowl float to them.  The bowl gently settles down and then water is poured from the pot into it.  It gently rests next to it.  “Water will help.  Please drink and relax.  I may not show it, but his appearance has unnerved me also.  What he is remembering is the first time we met.  He was but a new borne then.  I smuggled him out of Tesh.  It was…a tragic time for all three of us.”“All three…?”“His mother was killed by his father, Lord Bane of Tesh.”</blockquote>

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