Seong woke from the vision gasping. The queen was beside him, her hand on his shoulder.
"What did you see?"
He told her. Everything. The field. The child. The spreading darkness. The enemy who had been waiting.
"We must prepare," said the queen.
"How? We do not know where or when."
"But we know who. And we know why. That is enough to begin."
They gathered the keepers. They gathered the guardians. They told them what Seong had seen.
There was no panic. There was no fear. There was only determination.
"Then we will be ready," said Kalib. "When the enemy comes, we will meet them. Not as victims. As guardians."