Then, pure as light and sweet as flesh, a voice rose in the distance. ‘Come,’ she sang, ‘come to me and I will give you knowledge of yourselves. Come to She Who Remembers, and your past will be yours, and with it, all your futures. Come. Come.’ Tellur trumpeted an eager response, but ‘Hush!’ Maulkin bade him sternly. ‘What is that?’ For a second voice had lifted in song. The words were oddly turned, the notes shortened, as if the serpent who sang had no depth to its voice. But whoever she was, she echoed the call of She Who Remembers. ‘Come, come to me. Your past and your future await you.
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