When Mású arrived at Níya's chamber, he noticed several portrait frames, eight to be exact, in the foyer, that were wrapped in cotton clothe to protect the frames. Mású placed Níya's pack and cloak on the bureau and grabbed one of the frames. He sat in a chair and began to unwrap it.
The picture was of a Súri woman in the mountains. She was removing silver and bronze from the peak. Her blue eyes were different than those of all other Súri. Around the edge of her iris was a ring of bronze and around her pupil was silver. Mású instantly knew who it was.
"It's…It's…It's Rikani!" He couldn't believe Níya painted a portrait of the Súri prophetess. Nobody knew exactly what the prophets looked like.
He looked at the other portraits. There are eight portraits and there are six prophets. If Níya painted Rikani, she must have painted the other five prophets. Who could be on the other two? Wait! Exada and Matevak! It must be them.
Exada was Keeper of Light and Matevak was the Dark Watcher. Each of the prophets watched over a nation and had a special element they were the keeper of. However, Takadí created a Keeper of Light to watch over Kabíli and help its people stay good. The wicked Under Lord, Júkabev, was jealous of the power given to the Keepers. Thus, the Dark Watcher was created to corrupt Kabíli because the more evil in people's hearts, the greater the power of Júkabev and his Dark Watcher.
Mású removed the cloth of another portrait. It was Tyvax, the prophet of Dákó, creating wind in a canyon. The next was of a beautiful lake with Kóda, the Kújí prophetess, manipulating the water. The Asdem prophet, Tólen was levitating boulders in the deep desert.
His head began to spin. How was she able to paint all these? There is no way that she's seen all the prophets. No one is allowed to see them. Not even the Grand Ministers. Even if she was able to get through the prophets' temple security, there is no way she's been to all the temples. These pictures must just be what she thinks they look like.
The Bast prophetess was the next in the pile. Tómáka was standing in a field, creating wildflowers and small trees. In the picture of Lúme, the Mekína prophetess, there was a volcano exploding. Her hands produced fire.
All the prophets had similar rings around their pupils and irises. The colors of the rings depended on which nation each Keeper was a prophet of.
That was all the prophets. Mású opened the next one reluctantly. There were only two left. He feared to see what Níya thought Matevak looked like. Luckily, the next was Exada. She was in front of her temple with her long blonde hair flowing from the arctic wind. Snow was falling thickly and it covered the already frozen ground. Light seemed to radiate from her whole body except her face, which seemed almost sad. The ring around her pupil was white and the one around her iris was gold. Mású couldn't draw his face away from her beauty.