To Walk Through a Dream Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven With Wavering Footsteps Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Stone Song Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three A Tale of Winter Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Destiny Inescapable Prologue Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Epilogue The Cycle's Continuing Beginnings Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine Two Spirits Akin

[A/N: Set between 'Interlude: The Moon Song's Guardian Raven' and whatever happens afterwards... ] Two Spirits Akin Two women stood in a field. The grey skies above them drizzled down water like tears. The grass beneath them moved like a restless sea. The DreamWalker closed her eyes, feeling the shift of patterns around them. Shiriluna watched the older woman's face for a moment before asking softly, "What do you see?" "Just...two women in a field outside Paris, in the rain." She frowned thoughtfully. "One at the beginning of a quest, the other nearing the end of one." Rayven shook her head and opened her eyes, still frowning. She turned to look at Shiriluna and the two studied each other. Shiriluna absently tucked a straying lock of wavy black hair under her scarf, her blue eyes searching the DreamWalker's face for the answer to some unspoken question. Greying strands of hair blew unattended about Rayven's face, her green eyes revealing nothing. After a few moments it was she who broke the silence. "So, child, you are home now." There was something of a question in her tone. Shiriluna nodded slowly in answer. "And you?" Rayven only shrugged. They walked on. "One at the beginning of a quest....?" Shiriluna watched the grass before them, thinking. "Do you mean me?" The wind blew stronger as Rayven answered, nearly obscuring her words, "I don't know." There was another space of silent walking before the next question. "Where is the storm going?" "I don't know that either...." The rain began to fall harder and they both shivered, pulling cloak and shawl closer around themselves. When Rayven spoke again, her words came slowly, her voice almost mournful in the wind. "I have always..followed these quests..." She broke off briefly and scowled at a raven as it flew above them, cawing loudly. "Once..once I stopped... broke away from the call. Once......" Shiriluna interrupted the pause, "So, are you home now?" Rayven turned away wordlessly. ~*~ End~*~