Book 8-Wizards at War by Diane Duane

Author:Diane Duane
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Published: 2011-02-21T05:00:00+00:00

"Or a Hesper," Dairine said. "There's not much difference at this point, since there's never been one before, and there may be more later... if this works out."

Kit shook his head. "What's a Hesper?"

"It's a made-up word," Dairine said. "We don't have an English equivalent to the word in the Speech.

You know any of the old names for the Lone One before It fell?"

Kit thought a moment, hearing an echo of the word in an old memory. "Hesperus?" he said. "Is that in Greek mythology?"

"Yes and no," Dairine said. "But you know." She looked at Ronan, or rather, at his interior colleague. '

'The morning and the evening star,' they used to call the Lone Power, before there was that disagreement at the beginning of things. Then the 'star' fell."

"Phosphorus and Hesperus," said Ronan. "The Greeks didn't know the morning and evening stars were the same planet, so they had two different names. Some people started using 'Hesperus' as the name for the Lone One before It fell."

Dairine nodded. "That's the closest word we've got

for what we're looking for. What's about to happen," she said, "is the emergence of a 'bright' version of the Lone Power."

Kit's mouth fell open. "Here?"

"Looks like," Dairine said. "All we have to do now is figure out who it is, where it is, and how to help it."

"But the Pullulus," Kit said.

Dairine gave Kit an exasperated look. "Don't you get it?" Dairine said. "That's not even slightly important compared to this! I think the Powers are trying to tell us that doing the right thing about the Hesper will save the universe, too. The Hesper's a lot more important ... and we've got exactly one chance to get this right. If we do-"

She stood there and waved her hands in the air. Kit realized that he was seeing a historic thing happen: Words had just failed Dairine.

The thought scared Kit almost worse than the Pullulus did.

They came out into the dimmed light of evening at the Crossings, and Nita let out the breath she'd been holding since Sker'ret's transit spell started to work. At a time when wizardry was acting peculiarly, any successful gating was a triumph.

Beside her, Sker'ret hadn't moved off the transit pad. He was looking around him with all his eyes, every one pointed in a different direction. "Did you hear something?" he said.

"No," Nita said. And then that struck her as strange. Nita walked off the gating pad and stepped out to where the hexagon of the enclosure met the corridor. She looked up and down the length of that bright, shining space...

... and shivered.

"This is really weird," Nita said.

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