<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf">Benaiah had listened with great fascination as they both had spoken. First the raven and then the wolfling. In the process, he was learning new things about himself and the world he lived in. Almost every thought that the raven conveyed revealed fantastic things that were difficult to accept. Audra’s comments on the matter sounded spot-on and were tempered with wisdom and wariness. They were fitly spoken and laced with her natural instincts of survival. <br/>
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“Perhaps I do have some abilities, but none that I know of.” Benaiah responded. “These things are much too new to me. I have no clarity of thought concerning  them. I do tend to agree with you Audra. Your observations are keen and your judgment  is sound.<br/>
 I am young and unlearned in the realms of magic. I need council from one who is wiser than I. Regrettably, the one who might best have taught me has turned out to be my adversary.” The young hunter emphasized his frustration by pounding a heavy blow on the doorpost. He leaned his head against it for a moment as he pondered his conundrum. Then he stood erect and turned quickly.<i><b> “Is there no one that can council me concerning these things?”</b></i> he asked. As he looked to the raven his eyes were alight as if blue flames burned within his pale orbs. Opledor saw it. It was a defining moment for he recognized the strange glow in Benaiah’s eyes to be a manifestation of the power that was within him.</span><br/><div style="text-align: center"><br/>
<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"></span>​</div><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"> Opledor made no immediate mention of what he had just witnessed. After several moments, the raven spoke in what was clearly the human voice of his former self: “Well, I suppose I could help you with the basics.  Beyond that, two options come to mind. You could visit the Oracle of the high hills”  . . .  (he hesitated briefly, then his voice became more timid) . . .  “or you could approach the great dragon of the caverns.”<br/>
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