"I was born up in the Whitehorn area. My ma was a northerner. Her name was Linden. We didn't have a lot of money, so we moved a lot. She got jobs as a maid sometimes. I would play with the other boys. After a while people began to be mean to us. They called me Sand Scut and wouldn't give my Ma work. I was about five then.
"She would tell me that we were going to go back to Kastriel. She said that I was born in the desert. I think Kastriel was my Pa, but she never told me. That's when she died. The people there wouldn't give me a home a'cos I looked like a desert boy. I was living closer to Fief Meron, then. That's when Rentil of Tallan found me. He taught me some sorcery. He looked into the fire, too. Every night he did. And sometimes he put my hand in the fire, but it didn't hurt. That's when he told me things.
"Almost every time, he said that Kastriel would find me. Once he said that I had a great destiny. But while I was there, Kastriel never found me. I asked Master Rentil if Kastriel was my Pa, but he wouldn't tell me. So instead, Kastriel became my dream. Many nights, I would dream about a man on a horse, and a blue fire rising high above my head. I don't know if it was Kastriel or not, but I don't like waiting for him to find me. I want to find him.
"When I was about seven years old, I left Rentil of Tallan. He told me that if I was going to leave, I should make sure Kastriel found me. I was traveling for a while when a man found me. He was on a horse. He said his name was…Halef. He called me Kastriel. I thought he was Kastriel, and that I had found the man who would save me. I thought I had found my dream. But he said he came from the desert. I didn't want to go to the desert, because people made fun of me.
"The man named Halef left. Then, a man named Inar found me. He said that I could be powerful, if I went with him. He said that I had a very strong gift. I told him that Rentil said so, too. I asked him if he knew Kastriel. He said if I went with him, we could find Kastriel. That night, I had a dream that the man was evil. I ran away and used my magic to hide.
"Finally, I came to Corus. I lived there for a while. Soon, I became mad. I couldn't find Kastriel. I was having many dreams, that a man on a black horse, a man with black hair and blue eyes, would find me. When I saw him the day you guys found me, I thought he was Kastriel, because he was on a horse, and was in my dream. That's why I stopped you.
"The night before King Jon gave me my horse, I had another dream. This time, it was of you and me riding into the desert. I was riding this horse. As we got closer, we saw the man on the horse. I ad finally found Kastriel. That's why I named my horse Kastriel. I think I will finally find the man in my dreams."