“Only one I know among the living can wield it: the Supreme Priest Bledla. And he will use it. That’s why one of you must master it. It’s the only way to stop the coming destruction. And if none of you can, find someone, or you will all perish. The coming war will mostlike be a slaughter, and the only way to prevent it depends on someone else mastering this spell. That would prove Bledla is not . . . the second Prophet. There must be balance. Many lives depend on it.”
