Chapter Two, Reading # 14

"I didn't mean it that way, Flindra. I was just pointing out that there are advantages, which go with your true position in life. Change is hard, but there're blessings mixed with the pain."
"I suppose." She looked down. "I guess I never really thought about it. I guess, if I had a choice, I'd willingly trade rank and wealth for the quiet simplicity of what I know." She sighed. "But, I know that cannot be and I must do what the Spirit is asking me to do. I just feel a little lost and more than a little scared," she finished in a whisper.
"Why scared?" Leudh was quick to ask. "Is there something wrong?"
She nodded her head slowly. "I'm beginning to sense a great evil and it's..." Flindra dug the toe of her boot into the fallen leaves. "It's looking for me. That’s why I'm afraid, Leudh. In truth, I'm more afraid than I've ever been in my life."
A frown of concern crossed Leudh's features as he gazed at his sister. "How do you know this?"
"It started in my dream last night. I kept having the same nightmare over and over. It got so bad, I left my bed to keep from returning to the dream."
Leudh's frown deepened.
"For some reason, I felt compelled to gaze into the crystal to see if I could discover anything from it."
"The crystal Kewero gave you?"
Flindra nodded and had a distant look in her eyes. "When I gaze into the crystal I see things. My mind is pulled into a realm of colored lights and visions of people and places. I see things that I should have no way of knowing. The first time I looked into the crystal I discovered that I need to search for Kewero somewhere in the Northern Reaches."
"That seems harmless enough."
She shook her head. "That's only the beginning. I also see people and places and I feel in my heart that I’m seeing glimpses of my future. It changes sometimes; my fate must not be completely foretold, but it seems that I'm the focus of a terrible conflict somewhere in our future." She swallowed hard. "There is evil, a terrible, monstrous evil aiming to destroy us all. I know, somehow, I'm going to be involved fighting this evil and that's why it's looking for me."
"Looking for you?"