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It wasn’t the man’s voice that stopped Eliane in her tracks. It was his eyes.

To her, they were layered with years past.

Even her brother hadn’t had eyes like that.

No, she hadn’t seen anyone at all with those eyes, not since. . .

Slowly, Eliane sheathed her dagger.

This man — Glenesh, he had called himself — was no ordinary human. And from that she gathered that his companion — Nadia, was it? — wasn’t either.

“May I ask your names?” Glenesh added calmly.

“Eliane a’Mylneth, last of the children of Alegrin and Illyara,” she responded coolly.