As Rayanne woke up, she realized that she was late to get her morning chores started. She had stayed up for many hours into the evening last night pouring over the latest attempt from Lawral to give her hope into a future where she herself would have that gift. As the text floated around in her mind, she grabbed a piece of food off the table in the kitchen and ran out the front door. As she made her way down to the barn, the words "clear as day, the gift will be found" left her lips. Could this newest book be correct in stating that even those that had lost hope in the past generations were able to gain something extraordinary by following the path of the forefathers before magic ran rampant through the family lines to come?

As Rayanne made her way through the day, images of a journey through the unknown lands of Gearth, as did her great-great-great-great grandparents had done before they finally settled in Carrollglen ran through her thoughts. "Could it be that simple to just complete a quest and be rewarded in the end?" Rachel pondered out loud as she put the tools away for the evening and walked slowly to the house. A smile crept across her face as she sat down to enjoy a much-deserved dinner with her parents. "I've gotten another book from Lawral when I was in town yesterday, it was very….um… interesting." Rayanne casually threw out when the conversation had lulled into silence as her folks chewed on the boars meat.

"Sounds nice hunny," her mother remarked. This was her go to response whenever her daughter brought up the idea of a "cure all" for what appeared to just be a stroke of bad luck being born without a power of her own.

"So what does this one say about your little predicament?" Her father asked, with about as much enthusiasm as one would put forth towards talking about the weather to a stranger passing in the street. This was a typical pattern with them. Not that they didn't want to be loving and caring parents. But Rayanne's folks had come to term with the fact that their youngest was just one of the unfortunate ones and weren't blessed like their other children.

"It's clear as day! I mean according to the text, all I need to do it a personal quest to meet the great wizard within the mountains of Vihn and seek his guidance to be able to find how to turn on my inner powers." Rayanne gasped in excitement, "Just as our ancestors did!" The grin on her face was so wide it almost touched her ears.

"Oh hunny, you know those are just folklore" her mother said gently.

"A cute story to tell children about how all our unexplained powers came to be." Chimed in her father. This was the thought, that there had always been the natural gift within every person in Gearth, but only until the people themselves learned to harness it did it become known. Not that it was some attainable object that their forefathers captured. "Besides the Great Wizard of the Mountains has not been hear from since my grandfathers time, it's a well known fact that he has past on. There would be no point in taking the journey all the way to his manor through all those dangers just to find out he has been long gone." The smile on her face began to fade.

Rayanne's parents continued to eat and talk about the bountiful treats their daughter had brought back and chattered on about what they had planned to do for the rest of the week, as she turned to the window and sunk down in her chair in silence. Surely this time they were wrong. Everything in that book has sparked in her mind and triggered feelings the others just didn't seem to bring forth. There had to be a reason Lawral felt so strongly about it as well. This wasn't just any ordinary book, even the cover and pages felt different to the touch as Rayanne flipped through them again that evening. As she went form chapter to chapter she saw how her friend had scribbled little words and ideas in the margins. "The path thru the forest now blocked", "River that is now dried up" ,"pass that must be crossed late springtime". All these clues as they were seemed to her that Lawral had been trying to locate the landmarks mentioned in the book to real life places in Gearth.

The next morning, as her parents went the fields Rayanne wrote a quick note to her friend to ask about the seemingly important side notes in the book and ran down the road to give to her neighbor's son that was heading to Flowerton for other family business. "Come on Micheo just drop this off at the library, if you do I'll save you an extra jar of honey for your family. Doesn't that sound like a fair trade off? Its super important please make sure you take it directly to Lawral and no one else!" As the neighbor's boy finally conceded and took the letter, she ran off back to her own farm waving good bye and yelling thanks in his general direction until neither of them could see each other.

It took three more days to get a reply from Lawral, which was delivered by a passing merchant to the house while Rayanne was in the fields closest to the road. "Hey girl! Are you Rayanne? Am I at the right place? The Sage's daughter meant for me to drop this off, I'm not sure why but here." The man with the gruff voice hopped down from his cart and walked towards the wall that separated the fields and the road that passed through the family's land. As she ran as fast as she could towards him she could see his annoyance with what he must have felt was a menial task to pass notes between little girls.

"Oh yes," she blurted trying to catch her breathe. "I'm Rayanne, thank you, thank you so much, this is perfect, so wonderful. Thank you again!" She shook his hand with such force it seemed as it might fall off. He jerked his hand back and rubbed his wrist before tipping his hat and crawling back onto his cart and riding onto the next town of Lewismound. She ripped part the seal if the sages of Vihn that Lawral loved to use on any occasion she could. Overly excited to get any mail from her friend, let alone something that she had waiting half a week on was making her sweat with anticipation.

Scanning the 5 page hand written note made Rayanne giggle with delight. Her friend indeed had been hard at work trying to match what the book itself had described of the journey the mysterious author had put down with real world landmarks. With such details as Lawral had included in the letter, showed that the few words in the book itself weren't even half of what had been found out. Could this really be real? Was there an actual chance that there was a clear and true path to not only the wizard's place but instructions on what Rayanne had been searching for all these years? It seemed like a dream and she was almost afraid to wake up and see that everything was just another big disappointing mess. As she walked back to the tools she had dropped off in the field in all her excitement, she read the last page with extreme interest. "Rayanne, the thing is…since I started reading the book and looking up the maps and especially after your last visit I've been getting the same three visions in my sleep. I have talked to mother about them, and she is just as baffled as I am, but I think it might be a true blue clue to how we need to tie this all together. That's why I needed you to read the book yourself to see if you even were interested in the pursuit as I am. I promise to tell you all about it when you make your weekly visit. My dear friend I am sorry I cannot tell you more now, but it really is better spoken about in person. See if you can stay the night so we can talk after all your deliveries. Trust me you want to hear me out. Be strong and safe, this could be the key you have been waiting for all your life! My love to you and yours, Lawral"

With that she tucked the pages into her pants pocket and went about her day as calm as if something so life changing hadn't just happened to her. With content smile on her face the words "two more days until my destiny is revealed to me" escaped her lips with a deep sigh of relief and she closed her eyes and had the best sleep of her remembered past.