“What if they are true, Bair?” Aviendha found herself asking. “What if there isn’t anything we can do?” Bair turned. “You saw your children, you said?” Aviendha nodded. She hadn’t spoken in detail of that segment of the vision. It had seemed more personal to her. “Change one of their names,” Bair said. “Never speak of the name that child was called in the vision, not even to us. Then you shall know. If one thing is different, then others may be different as well. Will be different. This is not our fate, Aviendha. It is a path we will avoid. Together.”
