The Path to Greatness/Chapter 16

We followed Terul'sith through the darkened corridors for nearly two hours before coming to the surface and beginning to undertake our journey.

"It was bloody," Terul'sith said suddenly. "Many of us are dead. The child is even dying."

"What was?" I asked, confused by the sudden somber pronouncement. "What child?"

"We were cast through time and space... It was...." Terul'sith staggered then and Culak reached out to catch him.

"Whoa, Shara-naga!" Culak barked. "Rest now."

"Yes", Terul'sith responded. "I do need to sit down."

"We seem to have lost the Drakel," Kendrel responded.

"Shara-naga mebbe tell story now?" Culak remarked.

"Yes.... tell us your story, Terul'sith. Who have you come with?"

"We are known as the Order. We arrived in a Network Ship."

"How does a Drakel from another world end up on this one? What is the Order? What is a Network Ship? What happened to you? And what has it to do with The'Galin....? Who was this child?"

"I can answer only one question at a time, Thorne. Which would you have me answer first?"