Back to the beginning their minds went, to creation time, where those with the gift traveled to behold the nature of things and with such understanding could influence them in the world of forms. While he sang, a song of origin like no other she knew unfolded. She perceived in its dangerous vastness a cold cunning and angry heat, and at the heart of the words was wisdom both ancient and sharp. A keen intelligence differing from humankind’s dwelled in the words. It was foreign but somehow akin. But most of all, the immense strength in the song threatened to overwhelm her with the certain
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