And in the wake of the world's healing, as the Black Curtain was lifted from the world called Fall, and the Maelstrom was banished forever from the Gem of Worlds, it came to pass that a young woman by the name of Celeste Astor did something that had never happened, and which was thought to be impossible.
Under the stars of the Middle Lands, near the edge of the great desert of Gesh, she gave birth to not one, but two children at the same time--the first twins the world had ever known. She named them Darla and Darren, the "daughter and son of Darja." For Celeste did not know who their father could be, had no memory of love in her life at all...
Perhaps touched by the naming, or perhaps by something more provident, the goddess Darja parted the veil of stars to peer down upon the new family, and in the great capitol Mekeevis the rulers of the three nations--already in the midst of forging a new peace treaty, having only hours before witnessed the near-destruction of their world--saw the glint of Her divine eyes, and rode out to honor Her auspices.
On the 24th day of Wintermorn this occurred, and I cannot tell you any more. For once the story lies only ahead of me, a surprise every day.
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