Chapter XXIV, XXV Summary

In Chapter XXIV, the next morning Allanon, Brin, and Rone leave the silent Stors. Allanon warns that the journey ahead will be treacherous. Wraiths will be watching, Gnomes will be seeking. The three must take a difficult, less predictable path. That evening Allanon leaves them for a while, and Brin confesses that something seems wrong. She feels as if she is being watched and that something terrible will happen. Rone says they were both bound to change, with everything that has happened and being away from home for so long, but Brin insists there is something more. Allanon returns after the two had fallen asleep. He worries about Brin, because everything depends on her and she doesn't understand the full power of the wishsong. She sees it only in human terms, and the magic is not human.

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