The council.

Gem had many normal dreams that night, one with a crazy old lady with hundreds of cats, one with a boy with a yellow mouse-thing trying to fight a weird cat on two feet with a coin on its forehead, and one with a boy with a thunder shape on his forehead with a stick fighting a giant snake. But after a while she had a dream as clear as the one that led to her travel to Kove, and this is what she saw:

She was a pair of invisible eyes looking down from the ceiling. The room was white, and seemed somehow insubstantial, there were people there, an adult whose appearance was much like hers, the man who saved her from the monster was there, but with silver skin, there were four animals, guarding their masters, who were not seen by Gem yet.

The first of the animals was a great lion, it had six wings, and six eyes, it was king of the lions, no writing could describe it fully.

The second was an Ox, its muscles bulged from it black body, and its horns would shame any other ox, it had six wings and five eyes.

The third was like a human, its hair was emerald, its body gold, and its beauty beyond anything mortal, it had six wings and seven eyes.

the fourth was an eagle, feathers of wonderful bronze, eyes of bold blue, it had six wings ready for flight, and it had twenty eyes.

she then saw the three.

The left one was a pure white dove of giant size, and it filled her with love and happiness.

The middle one was huge, dwarfing the dove to the size of a mortal dove, and his appearance is impossible to explain by humans, save that he fills one with fear.

The one on the right was terrible in wonder, he was like a man, but not, he wore a great white robe, and golden chest armor, he had long, white hair, and a fine beard. his eyes were like fire, and gem would have fainted if she had a body to faint with.

Then they began to speak.

(To be continued....)