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him
silently with her cat-like eyes, as if she were weighing him
mentally, deciding how much to tell him. She absently brushed a
lock of stray hair back behind her ear and cleared her throat
before beginning.
    "The Jen de' le is an enigma
and always has been. No one knows very much about it. There is no
pattern or order to the way it works. Sometimes five people with
the Jen de' le have been born in a hundred years and other times
there has been as many as a thousand years between a single one.
You are the second living that I know about."
    "There's more, isn't there?"
Celdic asked with a sudden insight. "The Elders would not have been
acting the way they were if they just thought I had the Jen de'
le."
    Again, Tarya Selindria
looked like she was deciding how much to tell him. "According to
the records, most people that are born with the Jen de' le have
nothing more than extra physical abilities and sixth senses. You
seem to have the ability to control things with your yar that would be far too
difficult for anyone else to do without the aid of a compound.
However, you do not have any control over it. It seems to be
instinctive, just like the physical attributes that characterize
the Jen de' le. Instead of having a burst of strength or speed or
some other physical attribute, you have an outburst of power from
your yar . There
are some other things going on that I do not really understand, but
the thing that has some of the Elders worried is the possibility
you will have an outburst of temper and unleash a tidal wave of
power that could be very destructive. I think that is rubbish. Your
instincts would guide you to protect yourself from whatever was
harming you, not lash out blindly.” Pausing, Tarya Selindria
appraised him with a penetrating gaze, "How do you feel about all
of this?"
    Celdic pondered the
question, absently watching a dandelion bob around in the light
breeze. Something did not fit. He could not put his finger on it,
but there was definitely something missing.
    "I don't know,” Celdic
replied slowly. "I will have to think about it. I think we are
overlooking something." Celdic plucked the dandelion from the
ground and blew the seeds away. The seeds drifted across the field
on the gentle breeze with the sun sparkling off them. Noticing that
the sun was moving toward the western horizon, Celdic realized that
a lot of time had passed already.
    "Do you think they will wake
soon?" Celdic asked.
    "They will start stirring as
soon as the sun sets,” Tarya Selindria assured him, glancing at the
lowering sun. "Snake Vines harvest their energy from sunlight. The
venom from the snake vine will keep a victim down until it loses
its power source. Taking them into a deep cave would also be a way
to wake them, but that is beyond the effort necessary when the sun
will set soon."
    As the sun crept lower, a
middle-aged man that Celdic did not recognize approached them. He
wore the white robes of an Elder's Apprentice, with the emblem of a
staff crossing a sword on the breast. The emblem signified that one
day he would be an Elder on the Defense Council.
    "Tarya Selindria, your
presence has been requested at the Citadel,” the newcomer said,
looking at the slumbering youths curiously.
    Gracefully rising from her
cross-legged position, Tarya Selindria looked down at Celdic, "Will
you be all right watching over them alone until they
wake?"
    Celdic nodded silently,
watching Li twist on the ground with a small crease of frustration
on her forehead.
    "Then I will see you
tomorrow morning,” she told him, turning and gliding after the man
who had brought the summons.
    Wondering what it would be
like to be in the same room with the Chasel, Celdic found himself
once again trying to make sense of the short series of events that
had so suddenly interrupted their normal lives.
     
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    Cha'le's eyes snapped open
as she sucked in a large breath and exhaled it explosively. Slowly
sitting up, she looked around and saw Lendel and Li