There is no single place I can call home. I couldn’t go back to my owl family, because they wouldn’t understand what I’ve become. I can’t go back to my world, because I have no idea how I might get there. Even the palace at Rish, where I nominally live, I can’t consider my home. Dahr and Prince Eric are all I have, and now that they are beyond my reach, I am homeless.


    The Book of Lost Wisdom, Kalutu


    Eighteenth of Learning 1142


    Ambassador Rhea, a great honor.


    You are incorrect, but I understand why you would say so. I have waited for this moment for thousands of years.


    Your arrival at this place at this time. It has always happened. Will always happen. Your name will live forever in history.


    Because it is what must be. Not all things come to pass, but your ascension to ambassador was destined.


    Which doesn’t stop it from being the truth.


    It is time for you to return home.


    Just so.


    I don’t know. It is simply where you have to go. Where you have always gone.


    Yes.


    There is. Unfortunately, telling you what that is would change the future, and that cannot be allowed.


    There was never a bad time. Farewell, Ambassador. May you find what you’re looking for.