“I don’t understand,” Oraeyn whispered hoarsely.“It is not for us to understand,” Ina replied, her face clearing as she listened to Kaitryn. “It is for us to travel to the very edge of the light we are given.”“And then?” Oraeyn asked.A radiant smile beamed across Kaitryn’s face. “And then we jump with swords drawn, a battlecry on our lips, and we beat back the darkness.”

“Even in the midst of darkness, there is always a shard of light if we will but search for it hard enough and believe in it strongly enough.”

“I think, perhaps, that I begin to understand how much I do not know.”