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Feeling like his back was against the
wall, he felt something inside of him snap.
    “ You are the expert, not
me. I should be asking you! I just spent the last ten minutes
trying to stay alive, not knowing if my friends and sister are dead
or not and all you can do is stare at me like I am some kind of
criminal!” Celdic realized that he was shouting and closed his
mouth. He felt like molten fire was running through his veins. He
had not been this angry as far as he could remember. Again, he felt
as if there were some kind of small sun glowing inside of him and
the air around him was alive.
    The Elders and instructors
were staring at him in shock, some in genuine fear. No one ever
talked to the Elders that way. Tarya Selindria did not share their
shock. She looked amused and one of her eyebrows was slightly
upraised.
    Stepping in front of the
other Elders, Selindria laid a calming hand on Celdic's shoulder.
"It's all right,” she said reassuringly. Glancing over her shoulder
at the Elders, she said in tones that brooked no argument, "I will
talk with Celdic about what happened later. In the meantime, let’s
give him some space. If any of you have questions for him, leave
them with me and I will ask him. He is one of my pupils and I will
not have any of you badgering him with unnecessary
questions."
    Several of the white-haired
men appeared on the verge of arguing with her. However, she met
their demanding stares with her own intense gaze. As a group, they
finally glanced away, muttering to themselves about respect and
shaking their heads. A few of the Elders seemed relieved at the
dismissal.
    Celdic gave Tarya Selindria
a grateful nod and knelt down next to his three companions. They
looked like they were indeed dreaming of prisons, twisting around
on the ground as their hands groped blindly around them.
    As the group of Elders and
instructors began dispersing, Celdic puzzled over their odd
behavior. The fear that was evident on some of their faces when he
lost his temper made no sense at all. The relief that bloomed on
some of their faces when Tarya Selindria interceded was the most
puzzling. Celdic wondered what they had discussed to put them so
out-of-sorts. He jumped as he heard a throat clear behind him and
realized that he had voiced the last thought aloud.
    Tarya Selindria stood behind
him, watching with her inquisitive, catlike eyes. "You will all
find out soon enough so there is no harm in my telling you. A
stranger has breached the barrier and managed to get past the
Guardians. We received the message early this morning."
    Celdic felt stunned. "Did he
kill the Guardian?"
    Tarya Selindria raised an
eyebrow inquiringly. "He?"
    "The stranger,” Celdic
replied trying to cover his slip. "It was a he, right?"
    Tarya Selindria nodded,
watching him suspiciously. "No, he didn't kill Galvin. He just
rendered him unconscious long enough to get past. We have no idea
how he knew he was there. Galvin is one of our best."
    "When will he get here?”
Celdic asked with a frown, wondering if the intruder would turn out
to be the man that he saw in the vision that morning.
    "At the rate that he is
going, by tomorrow afternoon,” she replied, her eyes troubled.
"There is something that I need to talk to you about. I feel it is
something that you should know before there is an accident and you
unknowingly do something worse than kill Snake Vine. I think that
you have the Jen De' La."
     

Chapter 4
     
    Tarya Selindria and Celdic
sat down on the grass next to his slumbering companions. Every few
minutes one of the still forms would twitch or emit a small sound
of displeasure.
    "Is there any way that we
can wake them?" Celdic asked.
    Tarya Selindria shook her
head. "The only thing that could wake them would not be finished
until they were already awake anyway."
    "So where do we start?"
Celdic asked tentatively. "I thought that people who had the Jen
de' le were only born every ten centuries or so."
    Tarya Selindria studied