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Chapter 2

Rosalania didn't know if she was excited about what Trinoe had to tell her, or if she was scared that he had kept something from her. She was frustrated that her father, and a bird that she had never even heard of, knew so much about her. The way that the leni had mentioned this secret, it was almost as if it were going to be a bad one.

" What is she talking about father?" Rosalania began, looking between her father and the leni, accusingly.

"What do I need to know that I do not already know? The leni, I mean Roaphelia, knows of the powers which I possess, and she seems to be able to understand them, while I understand nothing." she glared at Trinoe. Rosalania supposed that she could cry and shout, scream at him that he had betrayed her, but that wasn't going to be helpful. Neither was anger, but anger felt better. Anger was far more brave an emotion then tears or hurt were, and Rosalania was anything but a coward.

" Rosalania," Trinoe soothed, "I have kept nothing from yer that wasn't my right to share. It was not my place to tell yer about who yer are, who yer are meant to be. Besides, if I had told ye long ago, the People that Are, would know that ye knew, and ye would be in danger." Rosalania shivered inwardly at the mention of the Great Forces, and thought that the place she must take must be pretty important if the People that Are were on the lookout for her.

"Now that yer old enough," continued Trinoe, "and have mastered the small exercises that ye thought were games, the ones that I have taught ye since ye were just a wee little thing, ye can know hide yerself from Them. Ye know how to block yer mind, and yer mind is the only thing that the People that Are would know about."

I don't understand," Rosalania whispered. " If my mind is what the People that Are are aware of, aren't I still in danger? A mind is a pretty big something that someone else could know about, and I could easily forget my games, er, I mean my training, and They would be able to find me."

Trinoe smiled and kneeled in front of her. " Ye are a smart one, Rosalania. Ye always have been. Ye are right, ye could slip, which makes it that much more important to always be aware. All of our minds, the minds of the humans, are all connected on a level that I do not fully understand. All that I do know, is that the People that Are, they have a way of knowin' where everyone is. But there are so many, that when you finally become magical, like you are now, the People that Are don't notice that one or two have, I guess you could say, dropped off the charts.

"They would notice, though, if ye were to hop back on. If you think of it, try ter picture it in yer head, a million people in yer mind, and here or there a few people leave, no big deal. Ye would assume that they died. But suddenly, one appears out of nowheres, and you wonder where that person went while yer back was turned. So you pay special attention to that person, and now, the People that Are, they know yer there, and there looking for yer."

Trinoe is right, nephling, they would know, and they would watch. Roaphelia put in. If they were to watch, they would figure out that you are a danger to them, and would then kill you, or realizing your full potential, control your mind and use you against any that stand against them.

"What?" Rosalania said, shocked. " But I'm not that powerful, I'm not that important. All I can do is heal things, or start a small fire. Why would they care?"

Because your power, Roaphelia explained, once realized, is far greater then theirs will ever be.