{The world is changing. I'm blind but I can see it. The gods left, Kae Mountains behaves abnormally. What is happening? Where has magic gone? Why is my core empty? Am I going mad? Surely it can't be that I am mad. I see it now, magic has stopped working!}
….
"You read too much of those books," Narene said, moving behind him and circling her arms around his neck. Sharen sighed and put down the tome in his hands. It had been weeks yet he hadn't even finished half the books he'd taken from the Holy palace.
This was something he had to do. He had to read as much as he could and find solutions to the problems that sieged the lands.
"I'm worried about the things that Lyanor wrote," Sharen said, looking up at her. She smiled and patted his shoulder but it only offered little comfort.
"Lyanor was a mad tyrant," she said.
"True," Sharen said. "But things just seem strange. I have this strange feeling in my heart that Kratamarhl is rebelling."
