(IV) For four years only: Rica of the Rosarito Beach, daughter of Juanita, who brought us the power of the waterfall, who was lost in valorous bloodshed ere the Sun Mission to the Northlands.
(V) For four years once again: Snow Deer, daughter of Sun-in-Stream, who would rather die in torment than ever reveal our secret sanctum to the Feeding Mouths who dwell in the Valley of Weeping.
(VI) For nine and forty years: Sage, daughter of Lacie, who journeyed into the Utter East in search of the Grail of Wonders.
(VII) For seven and twenty years: Daeli Choi, daughter of…
(Due to the extreme damage suffered by the lower panel, the Chronicle of the Storm Years ends here.)
(And that is all that now remains. The very rarity and now resonance of my own name, I believe, is proof enough that the bloodline of Sophia Ingrid St.-Germain lives on. The matriarchs gave down the names not of their husbands, but of themselves. The women’s family names have been preserved for centuries. Am I not of the one bloodline? Will deeper and hopefully un-irradiated physical remains which we might recover from the Geyser Basin, bones and DNA, offer the final proof? Let me go there to dig with our warriors and the delvers, I beseech you.)
(I submit these true and now sacrosanct records for publication, to be followed by mine own judgment for my betrayal, my revealing of these words to our own people. I submit and bequeath these remnants to the Loremaster in all sincerity,)
Author’s Afterword
And so we come to the end. I would like to express my love for my wife Michelle, and my son Liam, who I now dedicate this work to.
To my ever-encouraging and helpful readers, thank you for sharing this journey with me. My continuing works of fiction live and thrive only through your appreciation. If you have enjoyed this story, I humbly ask that you please consider spreading the word to your friends, and lend this work, and consider leaving an online review for me.
For those who are having difficulty letting Sophie and Lacie and their descendant Alexandria go (and I count myself among you), be assured that another series of From the Fire books revolving around Lacie and her daughter Sage will follow in the future, if there is interest.
I hope that we, and our nations, will all in time come to carefully reconsider our future history. I ask only this: If someone ever tells you that you must hate, consider not only what they stand to gain, but what you might stand to lose.
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