# Questions for Josh — Review Tomorrow *Built 2026-10-20 overnight, from tonight's open items and the old-notes pass (`old-notes-findings.md`).* **How to answer:** reply with just the number and your pick, like "Q1 yes, Q2 b, Q5 a." Each question lists options with my lean first. Skip anything you don't feel like deciding. Nothing here changes until you answer. --- ## Part A — Book 1 blockers (these affect chapters you'll draft soon) **Q1. The spell words.** I found your spell matrix in `EIGHT BOOKS 4.0`: **somon** (call), **morpho** (command), **thrysta** (curse), and **pyros, aqueos, aeros, geos, lumos**, each with hand gestures. - (a) **[my lean]** These are the *spoken words*. The 2022 names (lumina, aeross, pyronin, geosa, aquios) stay as the *names of the powers*. In Book 1 nobody speaks them; they surface in Book 2. - (b) Same as (a), but one word slips out in Book 1. Example: Clal says something he doesn't understand when the waterfall wall opens. - (c) Replace the 2022 power names with these. **Q2. Where the horn (the Dragon Summoner) comes from.** L-Ansa used to carry it. Your `EIGHT BOOKS 4.0` puts the Dragon Summoner **in the Hero's Chamber**. - (a) **[lean]** It's in the Hero's Chamber chest: a carved white horn, unexplained, nobody calls it "the Dragon Summoner" yet. The ambiguity survives. - (b) Found along the Dragon Tail River. - (c) Orry the fisherman has it. - (d) It came with the parents' stone. **Q3. The boat into the storm.** L-Ansa and Clal used to make it with fire and earth. - (a) **[lean]** An old woman wielder up the river gives them her boat (from `EIGHT BOOKS 4.0`). Another quiet wielder helping "kin." - (b) Clal and Rythe make it together, Rythe's first conscious wielding. - (c) Both: they get the boat from the woman, and Rythe's power shows up later in the storm. **Q4. How Morgrith comes to suspect Rythe.** - (a) **[lean]** Rythe comes back from his own exam shaken: the stone warmed or flickered, then went dark. He tells only Clal. - (b) Morgrith sees Rythe's "glow" moment when Prince Ednish bullies Orry. - (c) It's never shown. The reader infers it from "please bring Rythe along." **Q5. The altar in the last chapter, now that there's no Fire Crystal.** - (a) **[lean]** The five holes stay empty, the promise of the whole series. Only the sword goes in the slit. The mountain-reforming moment moves to Book 2. - (b) The altar reacts to the heart scale. - (c) The altar stays closed until Book 2. **Q6. Clal saying out loud why the dragon matters to *him*** (Lindsay's origin-as-motive note). - (a) **[lean]** Your old notes already have it: Clal is *"always drawn to the east like his future is out there beyond the ocean."* Plant that longing in Ch.1. Pay it off by the river ("To The River") where Clal says it: the dragon knew his father's name, so the dragon may know who he is. - (b) Put the spoken moment somewhere else. Where? **Q7. The river by the orchard** (the "from the ocean" version doesn't work). - (a) **[lean]** The orchard's lake is fed by one of the **Four Waters**, the spring in your old notes that flows out in four directions. It ties the orchard to the end-times sign (the fountain that reverses). - (b) Snowmelt off Crescent Keep, down the waterfall where Gree found the stone, into the lake, out to sea. - (c) A spring-fed lake. Folk tales say the water comes from the sea. **Q8. What the coin's symbol means.** Tonight: a dragon, five points, sun, moon, stars. Your old notes decode sun = the sword "The Sun," moon = Clal (Lyrune, the crescent hills), stars = *"5 stars — companions."* - (a) **[lean]** The five points are the **five companions**. The whole symbol is the six of them plus the sword, with the dragon at the center. - (b) The five points are the five elements. - (c) Both, on purpose: five points for elements, five stars for companions. **Q9. Whose scroll is signed "Your Mother"?** Clal and Ansa each read one (manuscript lines ~1036 and ~1474). - (a) **[lean]** Willa's, written before the night they fled. She still signs "Your Mother." It hurts to read now. - (b) Nareete's, left with the parents' things. --- ## Part B — Conflicts the old notes raise **Q10. The twins' mother.** Canon says **Nareete** (Willa's sister). `EIGHT BOOKS 4.0` says **Shailendra**, an elf wielder whose identical twin is **Neleen**, which makes Clal and Ansa half-elf "Melds." Neleen thinks Shailendra is *"locked in [an inner kingdom]"* from the Wielder War. - (a) **[lean]** Keep Nareete; drop the elf/Meld idea. **Keep "the parents are alive, locked in an inner kingdom."** That answers how *"Clal's father receives the stone"* at the end of Book 8. - (b) Bring back Shailendra and Neleen. - (c) Nareete keeps the name but is an elf, so the twins are Melds. **Q11. Larkin and Skyla at Book 1's climax.** Old drafts have the elf twins rescue Clal in the ice realm ("three angels... but they are not angels"). July locked their first appearance to Book 2, Ch.2. - (a) **[lean]** A *glimpse* only: two winged shapes pull Clal out of the ice, unnamed, gone. Book 2 reveals it was them. - (b) Keep them fully out of Book 1. - (c) Bring them fully into Book 1's ending. **Q12. Larkin's fate.** Old notes: *"Larkin was never meant to marry. He dies. Skyla may die too. They return through the Arches."* Tonight you locked three couples. - (a) **[lean]** Tonight wins. Larkin marries Ansa. (Your notes have Ansa *"notices Larkin for the first time"* and Skyla flirting with Rythe.) - (b) The old version: Larkin dies and returns through the Arches of Amnbir at the end. **Q13. Couples, confirm.** From the old notes: **Clal + Leara, Ansa + Larkin, Rythe + Skyla.** Larkin is male; Skyla is his twin sister. - (a) **[lean]** Yes. - (b) Different. Tell me. **Q14. Sedrak's breath.** The manuscript says ice dragon. One old note says *"Not ice dragon."* - (a) **[lean]** Ice dragon. It's in the text, and the cold-water calm detail depends on it. - (b) Change it. **Q15. A red dragon for the RISHK.** Old notes: *"Their dragon is white turned red."* In July you declined a black dragon because Womlon already fills that role. - (a) **[lean]** Still no. Keep it in the bank as a possible Book 6 surprise only. - (b) Yes. A corrupted white dragon is different enough from a "black dragon." **Q16. The unfinished sentence at the climax** (line 4550, "With a great thrust from an unknown force…"). - (a) **[lean]** Keep July's call: it's the moment Rythe and Ansa get pulled through their own door. - (b) `EIGHT BOOKS 4.0`'s version: Krothwing knocks Clal into the ocean. - (c) Both: Krothwing's attack is what throws Rythe and Ansa into their door. **Q17. Clal's element.** The manuscript says earth (the walls open for him). 2022 group notes say *"wielders of light, and so is Clal."* - (a) **[lean]** Earth for Book 1. The text depends on it. Light can be a later layer (the chosen one, captain of all the elements). - (b) Change to light. **Q18. East or West?** Old notes put Clal's home on Illia's **east** coast, which fits the prophecy's *"Look to the East to find The One"* and the exam criterion "from the East." The manuscript has Clal tell Sedrak *"I come from the West, from the Valley of Lyrune"* (line 4436). - (a) **[lean]** East. Fix line 4436. It makes Clal one of the exam's criteria without anyone saying it. - (b) West. Leave the prophecy as a riddle. --- ## Part C — Old ideas worth a yes/no for Book 1 **Q19. The exam's three criteria for the One** (from your notes): from the East, brings a pure blue light stone, not supposed to be there, and (later version) orphaned. Clal now meets them all. - (a) **[lean]** Yes, but only Morgrith knows them, and he never states them in Book 1. The reader can piece it together later. - (b) Morgrith states them in the Hero's Chamber. - (c) Don't use them. **Q20. The mark on the back of the neck.** In old notes, Ottomus's bloodline spell leaves a mark that appears when the Dark One grows strong. The exam light passes over heart, forehead and neck. - (a) **[lean]** Bank it for later books. Book 1 has enough reveals. - (b) Use it in the exam. **Q21. The Speaking Tree.** Clal's "twin in life force," in the Dawning of Time chamber, sprouted when he was born, and wilts when he strays. Your manuscript already has a tree etched on the climax door. - (a) **[lean]** Yes. Plant it quietly in the last chapter: a small tree in the chamber, a little wilted. It pays off Clal's inner fight across the series. - (b) Not now. **Q22. Six faceless statues.** Old notes: six prophesied statues in Eldan Vyum; Clal sees himself and the sword, but the statues have no faces. Your manuscript's exam-hall statue is "Seldinolum and his brave companions." - (a) **[lean]** Make that statue group six faceless figures. Quiet, eerie, pays off the six. - (b) Leave it as written. **Q23. Rythe's dagger.** He already says in Book 1 that the dagger *"was left to me by my father."* Old notes make it Renthar's, the mark of his lineage. - (a) **[lean]** Yes. Keep the line, never explain it in Book 1, pay it off in Book 6. - (b) No. **Q24. Turl's trip North.** In `EIGHT BOOKS 4.0`, Turl came back from a trip North changed and cold ("we aren't blood relation"). Tonight Turl became the loyal guardian. - (a) **[lean]** Drop the cold-Turl version. *Optional:* keep "Turl went North once" as the moment he first learned the twins' story was bigger than an adoption. - (b) Keep some of the old friction. **Q25. Talon as family.** Old notes made Talon the twins' uncle (Aerol's brother). - (a) **[lean]** No. Talon stays unrelated. Willa and Gwynn already carry the family thread. - (b) Yes. **Q26. Womlon at 17.** In his boyhood journal Womlon attacks his father at 17, the coming-of-age year Clal is about to reach. - (a) **[lean]** Bank it as a mirror for later books: two boys, the same age, opposite choices. - (b) Not needed. **Q27. The four Ladies are one woman (Illia).** Lady Wind, the Lady of the Pool, the Mirror Maiden and the Fair Flame are Mother Earth. The woman's face in the river in Book 1 is her. - (a) **[lean]** Yes. Confirm as canon. - (b) Not sure yet. **Q28. The Book of Legends' voice and sealed portion.** Old notes: the book has a voice (Illia) that Clal learns to hear, and a sealed portion that opens in Book 5. - (a) **[lean]** Yes. The scroll that "won't budge" in the Hero's Chamber chest is the sealed portion. - (b) Keep them separate. --- ## Part D — Small things from tonight still open **Q29. "Dragon references in the floor."** You said there are dragon references in the floors of the exam hall and the Hero's Chamber. The manuscript has the dragon *statue* and the dragon on the *wall*. What's on the floor? *(Old notes had the words "At the Last" written on the chamber floor, marking where Illia is hidden.)* **Q30. Morgrith's line in the Hero's Chamber:** "It has always been this way" or "The dragon knows things even I do not"? *(Lean: the second. It makes Morgrith smaller than the dragon, which sets up the ending.)* **Q31. Spellings.** Morgrith or Morgreth? Mina or Meena? *(Lean: Morgrith and Mina, as the manuscript has them.)* **Q32. A title for the untitled Chapter 15.** *(Suggestions: "The List," "Kin," "Who It Should Be.")* **Q33. Gwynn.** Old notes say she's *"adopted [by?] Morgreth but much older than Morgreth."* Is Gwynn connected to Morgrith, and is she older than she looks? (She'd be on the Longkept list if so.) **Q34. Who first tells the trio the real stakes** (summoning the dragon starts the end)? Gulnerye, someone else, or the RISHK. Book 2 or later. *(No rush.)* **Q35. Lindsay's notes.** Two lines are still garbled: "she went to Rigby" and "market says how did you call." And is the $2,500 editing estimate a total or a per-word rate? --- ## Part E — The dragon hunt, the title, and "Call" (added 2026-10-29) *From Josh's dragon-hunt question and a pasted ChatGPT naming chat. Nothing here is decided. Log each answer to `legends-log.md`.* **Q36. The shape of the dragon hunt.** - (a) **[lean]** Keep the Examination. Make it a four-year cycle for ages 14–18, so Clal at 16 and Rythe at 17 are both eligible. Clal is still called by accident. Other parties and families treat it as a tournament; most go through the motions, and only the trio stumbles onto something real. - (b) Josh's option 1: Clal sneaks in a year early on purpose, the trio hunts in secret, some kids notice. - (c) Josh's option 2: a fully competitive book about every party hunting the dragon. Big rewrite; the quiet-secret structure and the RISHK Prologue would need rebuilding. - (d) (a) for Book 1, and the full competitive version in Book 2 or later. **Q37. What is the hunt worth?** If nobody believes there's a dragon, why would families compete? Pick one or more: glory, land, a seat at court, a real old reward everyone has half-forgotten, or most people believe and the question is who can do it. *(No lean. It decides how competitive the world feels.)* > **Q38 answered 2026-10-29 (Josh): option (b).** Clal does not know he's the chosen one until Sedrak sings verse 3 and names him. Rework list is in `legends-log.md` (2026-10-29). **Q38. How long does "Rythe or Clal?" stay open?** The manuscript confirms Clal around Ch.8 (and your log moved and softened that reveal). The ChatGPT chat assumed it stays a mystery to the end. - (a) **[lean]** Keep it as logged. The reader suspects Clal early; the characters and the world stay unsure for longer. - (b) Hold it open much longer, which means rewriting the Ch.8 confirmation. **Q39. Are the statue's champions earlier failed attempts?** "Seldinolum and his brave companions" in the exam hall. *(Lean: yes. A four-year cycle makes it natural, and it explains why nobody believes anymore.)* **Q40. Series title: Legends of Clal or Legends of Illia?** Your instinct is Illia, "not final." For Illia: it doesn't give away the chosen one, and it names the world. Against: the Illia character in Frith Chronicles and the world "Illian" in the Echoes Saga (our files spell the world Illian), and Illia is also a person in our canon (the four Ladies). Against Clal: it spotlights one boy. *(Lean: don't decide yet. Run a real search and trademark check on both names first.)* - **Update 2026-10-29:** Josh's Google search for "illia" shows it's a common name (Ukrainian given name, Skyrim's Illia, an Argentine president, ILIA Beauty). Using a name someone else used is fine; the Frith Chronicles and Echoes Saga hits are existing uses, not blockers. Josh also searched "illian": it is a Wheel of Time nation famous for hosting the Great Hunt for the Horn. Fine as a people-word; the overlap to watch is a hunt plus a horn plus "Illian" together (see Q36). Still to do: search the exact phrase "Legends of Illia" (Amazon, Goodreads, USPTO). Real tradeoff is findability: "Illia" searches are swamped by ILIA Beauty and Skyrim, while "Legends of Clal" is nearly empty. **Q41. Book 7 as the in-world scripture, Book 8 as the prequel.** Already in the notes. New from the chat: market Book 7 explicitly as "Volume VII: The Book of Legends — The Sacred Text of Illia." *(Lean: yes, as a marketing idea; no change to structure.)* **Q42. Where did the Book of Legends come from?** Notes say Gulnerye wrote it. Did he write down real history, or did he know what would happen? *(Lean: both. Part history, part foresight, and the book is wrong or unclear in places. That gives Book 7 room to surprise.)* **Q43. "Clal" is "call."** Your idea: the scripture says "call," and "Clal" is the misspelling that turns out to be the true deliverer. It ties to your typing history: raised by your grandpa, who had a computer business, five computers in the house, and you learned to type fast, so 'call' came out 'clal' and the name stuck (game character first, then the books). A fast-typist's slip becoming a hero's name is a story in itself, so it may be worth an Easter egg or an author's note. The spell word **somon** already means "call" (Q1). - (a) The scripture uses "call" for the one who summons, and Clal's name is an in-world misspelling that nobody notices until late. *(Pairs well with Q38 option b.)* - (b) A quiet author-level wink, never explained on the page. - (c) Both: an Easter egg in Book 1, an in-world payoff in a later book. - Also: does "call" become part of the summoning itself (the word the dragon answers to)? **Q44. The character's full name.** The chat has it as *Clallion Winden* ("Clallion" and "Clalion" both appear). Which spelling, and does it appear on the page in Book 1? **Q45. The Book 5 kingdom named "Illia."** The series notes call Book 5 *Kingdom of the Tides* (Illia, water, Womlon's domain). You've now said Illia is the whole continent. This was already flagged as "Illia-as-continent vs. Illia-as-inner-kingdom." *(Lean: Illia = the whole continent. Give Book 5's water kingdom its own name, since Womlon's domain is under the sea.)* **Q46. How is Illia in the seed?** She's the princess and Mother Earth, "embedded in the continent as the stone seed's inner woman." Which is it? - (a) **[lean]** She gave herself to the seed willingly, which is why she's Longkept and why she can speak through the land, the Ladies and the Book of Legends. - (b) She was the seed's bearer and was bound into it. - (c) She was lost to the seed against her will, and Womlon had a hand in it. **Q47. The Godhead list.** Your list is Ottomus, the queen, Felsawn, Womlon, Illia. The notes also make Morgreth the Holy Ghost figure and Felsawn's son. Keep Morgreth as a separate third figure, or fold that role into someone else? *(Lean: keep as is, since the First Family and the Godhead trio are two different sets.)* > **Q48 answered 2026-10-29 (Josh): the horn is gone.** The characters never land on a horn being a summoner; steer away from it entirely. **Q48. What happens to the horn?** You've said Clal summons by singing. The draft has a white dragon horn (Gulnerye sends them to find it, L-Ansa hands it over, Clal blows it twice, Sedrak mentions it). - (a) **[lean]** The horn goes. The quest becomes "find the song" (or the place or moment to sing it), and the white dragon carving moves to something else, such as the Hero's Chamber wall that's already there. - (b) The horn stays as a relic that fails or answers wrongly for anyone but Clal, and singing is the true way. (A false lead that fits "no one knows how.") - (c) The horn carries or amplifies the song, so both are needed. **Q49. What does he sing?** *(Suggestions only, nothing in canon.)* - (a) **[lean]** The family lullaby ("The lands of Illia sleep, my love…"), so the summoning is something he's had since childhood and the first chapter plants it. - (b) The song the necklace sings, "the song of the prophecy." - (c) A new song that Clal composes or recovers. (Fits you as a songwriter; it also needs lyrics from you.) **Q50. Does he know he can?** Does Clal discover the singing by accident (like the waterfall), or is it taught or foretold? And is "Dragon Summoner" the horn, the song, or Clal himself? *(Lean: Clal himself, which keeps the title ambiguous the way you wanted.)* > **Update 2026-10-29 (Josh's leaning, not locked):** Q48 — no horn. Q49 — the lullaby, which the parents left with Willa and Goran as "a lullaby from our people," found again in the Book of Legends, and sung (not the prophecy) by Clal in the door-realms at the end. Details below. **Q51. Who knows the lullaby?** Josh's version: only Clal and Ansa. The draft: Turl, Gree and Mina sing verse 1 at the fire, Rythe hears it, and Ansa finds verse 2 in the Book of Legends. - (a) **[lean]** Keep verse 1 as the family song everyone knows. Verse 2 is the secret one: only the book has it, Ansa found it, and it's what matters. Nothing in Chapter 1 changes. - (b) Make the whole lullaby the twins' alone. Turl, Gree and Mina would have to be cut from the fireside song, and Willa/Goran would teach it only to the twins. - (c) Everyone knows both verses; what only Clal can do is *sing it in the right place and mean it.* **Q52. What do they believe about the summoning?** Gulnerye says the dragon "can only be summoned by a dragon's horn" (line 3146). With no horn, what does he say instead? - (a) **[lean]** He doesn't know how; he only knows where and that it needs "the key" and "the song." The party guesses wrong for a while. - (b) He points them at the lullaby without understanding why. - (c) Nobody mentions how; Clal does it by instinct and the reader sees it before the characters do. *Also: what to call the four magical door-realms Clal enters. The outline calls them "doorways" / "door-realms." You called them "vision worlds."* **Q53. The parchment.** Dolbis and Nareete left a parchment with the song, and Nareete's instruction to Willa ("Teach them this song... it's our family song") needs a place in the story. Where does Clal get verse 2? - (a) **[lean]** The parchment is in the pouch Willa hands over in Chapter 1. Per your log, the pouch was meant for coming of age next year and goes over early because of the crisis. Verse 1 is on it too, so Clal sees the whole song written down for the first time. Nareete's line becomes Willa's flashback or her words at the farewell. - (b) The parchment is the "mother's private scroll" Clal reads in Ch.5 (directions to Reubus plus the family creed), with the song added to it. - (c) Verse 2 is only in the Book of Legends, as in the draft; the parchment holds verse 1 only. - (d) Both: the parchment has it, and the Book of Legends echoes it, so the song is proven to be about the dragon. > **Q53 answered by Josh 2026-10-29:** the parchment is found in **Chapter 1 of Book 2**; Willa buried it out of fear. More detail on the parchment to come. The pouch lean above is dropped. **Q54. How does Clal learn verse 2 in Book 1 and the others don't?** *(Now that the parchment is a Book 2 find: the likely Book 1 source is the Book of Legends, as in the draft, but only Clal learns it. The parchment in Book 2 then confirms where it came from and why Willa only taught verse 1.)* *(Suggestions.)* - (a) **[lean]** He reads it alone (the parchment, or the book at night), memorizes it because he wants to, and hums it later without anyone noticing. Ansa and Rythe never hear him sing the full thing until the door-realms. - (b) He sings it once casually on the road and the others don't register that it's a new verse. - *Also: Ansa's and Rythe's reactions in the scene at line ~2200 change either way. They need a different clue to the song's importance, or none.* > **Q53/Q54 update 2026-10-29 (Josh):** the parents only had verse 1, so the Book 2 parchment holds **verse 1 only**. **Verse 2 is hidden only in the Book of Legends**, so no one finds the key. Q54's open part is just reworking lines ~2200 and ~2716 so only Clal learns it. > **Q54 answered 2026-10-29 (Josh):** Rythe, Ansa and Clal all read and hear verse 2; only Clal *learns* it, from his own drive and a feeling it connects him to his parents. Lines ~2200 and ~2716 stand as written. The rewrite should show Clal's wanting. **Q55. Is the whole poem about the dragon, not the chosen one?** *(Josh: "not sure yet.")* Two readings of "the poem": - (a) The **lullaby** is the real prophecy, and it's about the dragon. - (b) The **prophecy poem Morgrith recites** ("Look to the East to find The One") has been *misread* for centuries as being about a chosen one. It was about the dragon all along. - (c) Both, and they interlock. *Suggestion only:* (b) fits your earlier reframe that the Examinations are really about who can summon the dragon, and it explains why nobody knows how or believes: they've been reading it wrong. > **Q55 answered 2026-10-29 (Josh):** the Prophecy and the Seldinolum song are both about the chosen one (Clal). The lullaby is about the dragon. Clal holds "the key to open fate," which is verse 2. No change to the prophecy's wording. > **Q56 partly answered 2026-10-29 (Josh):** the peoples are the hidden kingdoms. Still open: who the "I" is. **2026-10-29 (Josh): not Illia; it's Sedrak or Clal.** *(Lean: Clal, the singer takes up the vow; Sedrak answers. Josh has not chosen.)* **Q56. Who are "the peoples" in verse 2, and who is the "I"?** If the lullaby is about the dragon, verse 2 ("The peoples of dear Illia / No sight, no voice... gone away beyond what's known... I'll come for you and set you free / Your people I must know") needs a reader's answer. *(Suggestions only.)* - (a) **[lean]** The peoples are the hidden or banished peoples of the inner kingdoms, and the dragon is the one who will bring them back. The singer ("I") is the dragon's voice or promise. A sleeping dragon, a lost people, one song. - (b) The "peoples" are the dragon's own kin, long gone, and the song is the dragon speaking to them. - (c) Both layers: the song is the dragon's promise to the lost peoples, and whoever sings it takes up that promise (which is what Clal does). > **Q57 partly answered 2026-10-29 (Josh):** Sedrak's line is the real reveal (option b); Clal doesn't know until then. Still open: where verse 3 lives, and the "borne" spelling. **Q57. Verse 3 and Sedrak's first words.** Josh wrote a new third verse, sung by the dragon as he emerges from Edaphlas, and Sedrak's first words are "You, dear one, are the chosen one." (Full text in `legends-log.md`, 2026-10-29.) - **Where does verse 3 live?** (a) **[lean]** Only on the page in Book 1, heard by the reader and the characters in the moment, never written in the Book of Legends. (b) It later appears in the Book of Legends. (c) Clal hears it and no one else does. - **What does Sedrak's line do if Clal already knows (Q38)?** (a) **[lean]** It's the final seal: the one the prophecy is about says it aloud, so it lands as a payoff and not news. (b) Hold the doubt open (cut or soften the Ch.8 confirmation) so the dragon's line is the real reveal, which also settles Q38's "Rythe or Clal." - **Spelling:** "born" in line 5, or "borne"? *(Lean: borne, "carried.")* > **Q58 partly answered 2026-10-29 (Josh):** the glow stays, and the dragon scale creates it. Still open: what each character believes it means. **Q58. If Clal doesn't know, what does everyone think the glow means?** The stone glows for Clal, the necklace sings, the walls light up. With "chosen one" off the table, what do Clal, Ansa, Rythe and Morgrith each believe? *(Suggestions only.)* - (a) **[lean]** It means *something* is special about Clal and it's dangerous to say so; Morgrith, who doesn't know the deeper stakes, is cryptic and tells them to stay quiet. Clal fears and wonders. Nobody says the words "chosen one." - (b) It's read as a sign Clal is a wielder (which the group works out later), not the deliverer. - (c) Rythe believes it might be him. His own exam stone warmed and went dark (an old question, Q4), so he and Clal are both unsure, which brings back "Rythe or Clal?" for the whole book.