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"Maisha?" Lauren asked. The stag nodded. "How are you feeling?" she asked.

Lauren sighed and leaned back against the tree. "Not the best."

"I can help with that." Maisha's antlers started to shimmer and glow in every color and shade of the rainbow. The lights all converged together and engulfed Lauren. She had never felt such relief as the colors completely dissolved the pain and banished all wounds that she had endured.

When the light faded Lauren felt as good as new. "Thanks!" Lauren said. Maisha only nodded. Kaylissa helped Lauren up and handed something to her. "Here, you dropped this." Lauren put the Starstone back around her neck. "That stone has the power to reveal the past. That's how I know what happened to you. It was Akili who made it work."

"Wow, and Mlinzi had that power?"

Akili nodded. "He did indeed."

"Well, we have to do something about this Order of the Shadow." Lauren slowly recalled the prophecy. "Moon and Sun will meet in battle. The Sword will crush the Crown. The fallen Star will rise."

"Well, the Moon is obviously you," William said. "But who is the sun?"

"I wish I knew," Lauren said.

"There is one thing that can help you defeat the Order of the Shadow," Maisha said. "High atop the highest point of the mountain Juu, there is a cobalt and onyx dagger that possesses the magical properties necessary to defeat this menace to Eddeathra. You must journey there to retrieve it."

"I've never heard of Mt. Juu," Kaylissa said.

"No one has ever been there. It resides in the Unchartered Territories."

"Okay," Lauren said. "Will, Kay, Askari, and Akili will go," she stopped when she saw the cloaked figure. "Do you uh, want to go too?"

The figure nodded. "I think that I will prove very useful."

"There is one more thing that you need: a guide. Someone who had been there."

"But didn't you say that no one has been there?" William asked.

"I meant that no one living had been there. There is someone who can help you."