Eyes snapping open, he sees Miko staring at him with deep concern. “What?” he asks.
“Thank goodness you woke up,” Miko tells him. “You had us worried.”
James looks down at himself and sees his clothes untouched by the fire. He puts his hand on his shirt to make sure it’s real and pain erupts from his chest. Pulling up his shirt, he sees that his entire chest is covered in burns.
Then it comes back to him. The fire in his dream had burned him in the real world. “Cassie!” he cries out. Looking around he sees Jiron riding closer with a grin on his face.
“Cassie?” Jiron asks then looks to Miko who shrugs.
‘When the Shroud of Killian blinds the giant’s eye a second time, the knife will fall,’ she had said.
“What did you say?” Brother Willim asks from his seat next to the driver.
Not realizing he had spoken aloud he glances to the brother. “When the Shroud of Killian blinds the giant’s eye a second time, the knife will fall,” he repeats. Glancing around at the others he can see they think him mad. Just then, Illan rides up. Before he has a chance to say anything James holds up his hand ands says, “Listen!”
The dream is already beginning to fade but parts of it still remain crystal clear. He tells them of finding Cassie and Tinok and of what she said.
“It wasn’t just a dream either,” he states. Lifting up his shirt he shows them the burns upon his chest.
They look to Miko who says, “There were no burns on him earlier.”
“But what does it mean?” asks Jiron.
“The Shroud of Killian blinding the giant’s eye refers to the time in the moon’s cycle when it turns black,” Illan explains. “It’s an old tale that my grandmother told me when I was younger.”
“She said that I didn’t have much time.”
“The moon turns dark in three days,” Brother Willim says. “The second time will be a month after that.
“Then in a little over a month,” he says, “the knife will fall.”
The adventure concludes in:
The Mists of Sorrow
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Chapter Seven
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Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty One
Chapter Twenty Two
Chapter Twenty Three
Chapter Twenty Four
Chapter Twenty Five
Chapter Twenty Six
Chapter Twenty Seven
Chapter Twenty Eight
Chapter Twenty Nine