Tam
She turned, coat snapping in the wind like the sail of a departing ship, and walked the last stretch toward the carved arch and the darkness it contained. Water misted like a curtain, blurring her silhouette as she passed the threshold that would not let him pass..
Tam stood there long after she was gone, watching the place where her shadow vanished into legend. Because he was sure he had truly met a legend of yesteryear.
His fingers curled around the pearl in his pocket, and with a small smile, he turned back toward Kael-Vora and the skyborne home waiting for him in the harbor.
The Scarlet Sphynx was calling.
Soon there would be wind in her sails once more.
