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Bhelliom from me and from my Child-Goddess,
Aphrael. '
And then, quite suddenly, everything became clear.
Sparhawk fell to his knees with Kurik beside him, and
the knight accepted the sapphire rose from Sephrenia's
hands. She knelt between the two of them in adoration as
they gazed at the glowing face of the one they had called
Flute.
The eternal Child-Goddess Aphrael smiled at them,
her voice still raised in choral song that filled all the cave
with shimmering echoes, and then the light which filled
her misty form grew brighter and brighter, and she
speared upward, faster than any arrow.
And then she vanished.
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