Ranessa swore Jessan to secrecy regarding the fact that she was a dragon, for it would never do for the Trevinici to know that they had inadvertently reared a dragon child in their midst. (They would have been deeply suspicious of their own children ever after.) Ranessa never returned to the Trevinici. She remained at Dragon Mountain and eventually took over guardianship of the monks upon the death of her mother.
The Grandmother found life intolerable on her return home. The pecwae were so glad to see her and so grief-stricken over Bashae that she could not stand the weeping and wailing. Taking her newly made agate-eyed stick, the Grandmother bid them all good-bye and departed in search of her sleep city. She never returned, and no one ever discovered what became of her.
As for Shadamehr and Alise, the where and how of their eventual marriage was never known, for he would only laugh heartily whenever it was mentioned, at which Alise would fly into a rage and refuse to speak to him for days on end. They apparently loved as heartily as they quarreled, however, for the barony was soon overrun with red-haired children. Though how they found time to either create them or raise them was a mystery to their friends, for they were either off in Tromek assisting the elven cause, or getting themselves nearly killed fighting with the orks to liberate Mount Sa ’Gra, or working with the Council of Dominion Lords to establish new guidelines for their continuation in the absence of the Sovereign Stone, in which the baron, as the new head of the Council, took a very interested and active part.
Last, it is a great temptation for the chronicler of this history to write that the downfall of Dagnarus caused those who had been responsible for his defeat to be honored as heroes throughout Loerem. The truth is that most of Loerem’s people were so intent upon living their own lives that they soon forgot the Lord of the Void and those heroes who had sacrificed so much to stop him.
Which, as the Captain, in her wisdom, pointed out, is as it should be, for returning life to the living is the goal of the hero.
Acknowledgments
We want to thank Larry Elmore for a wonderful journey through his fantastic world. We are so grateful to him for permitting us to travel alongside.
—Margaret and Tracy
About the Authors
Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman are the New York Times- bestselling authors of more than thirty books, including Dragons of a Vanished Moon; the Sovereign Stone Trilogy; the Star of the Guardian series; the Death Gate Cycle; the Darksword Trilogy; and the Dragonlance series. For more information on the Sovereign Stone Trilogy and the Sovereign Stone game, please go to www.sovstone.com.
The Sovereign Stone Trilogy by
Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Well of Darkness
Guardians of the Lost
Journey into the Void
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