Isaac and Lenna meditated through the morning until just before lunchtime. When they left their apartment, they met with Lord Ashborne. "Thank you for watching over us." Isaac told the ancient blade dancer with a nod in thanks.

"You are finished?" Lord Ashborne replied with an acknowledging nod.

"Maybe, hopefully." Isaac said with a slight shrug. "I am still not back to normal, but tonight is the full moon and I get the feeling that not only is it the best night to do this, but Master Su'Sol also wants this done tonight."

Lord Ashborne nodded in agreement. "I feel it too." He stated cryptically.

"What, exactly, do you feel?" Isaac asked with pure curiosity. He got the feeling that the old warrior in front of him had not gotten to be so old by chance. 'Beware the old man in a world where young men die.' came to his mind once again.

"I can feel it in the wind." Lord Ashborne explained. "The winds are changing in irregular patterns. Something big is going to happen soon. That is what they are telling me. What about you?"

"It's like a tingle down my spine, and especially between my shoulder-blades." Isaac explained. "Like I can feel the static building before a lightning strike."

Lord Ashborne nodded and then looked at Lenna for her to explain what she felt. "The hair on the back of my neck starts to rise unbidden, and it feels like my ears want to flatten against the side of my head. I can feel the muscles in my face trying to squint but not hard enough to actually do it." She informed them.

Lord Ashborne nodded and then turned back to Isaac. "Instincts are expressed differently for everyone, they tell a lot about a person." He told them. "If you need me again, tell the stray cat, sir dragon, miss wolf." He said and nodded to the duo in turn.

Isaac looked at him with slight confusion and a bit more curiosity, the delay caused both of the duo to nod to the old warrior at the same time. "If you don't mind, I would love to pick your brain on the topic of reading people via their instinctual expressions and reactions, that sounds like a very interesting topic." Isaac told Lord Ashborne. "But for now, we need to eat and meet with Master Su'Sol."

Lord Ashborne gave them a final nod in farewell before he finally couldn't stifle a yawn. "Get some rest." Lenna told him and the duo left before the old warrior.

Isaac and Lenna got lunch and then headed to the hospital and church. They took the stairs, quickly but not overly so as they still had plenty of time, and then soon arrived on the floor where the Fatebreaker was in residence. When they exited the stairwell and into the small lobby area, two healer's assistants were sitting behind a desk, idle.

"We are here to meet with the Fatebreaker." Isaac told them and just started walking towards where they knew the oldest mortal elf resided.

Unlike the last time, the two assistants stared at Isaac with their mouths agape. Everyone knew who Isaac was by then, the mana event surrounding him was not something that could be kept under wraps forever, forever in this case being longer than a week. They didn't cause the duo any trouble as they walked past the desk and down the hall. Isaac knocked on the door twice when they arrived. "It's us." Isaac very undescriptively said through the door.

A moment later, Xlen opened the door and gave them a nod in greeting. "I expected you later." He told them and then turned to give the farseer a flat look.

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Cainen's face bore an easy smirk that came from always being ten steps ahead of everyone in any given room. It was a smirk that could only come from people who were entirely in control of every situation that they had ever found themselves in, and those who were pretending to be that kind of person.

"You will get a message, tomorrow, and will wish to leave this place immediately afterwards." Cainen told the duo as his greeting.

Isaac was instantly thrown off guard as the old man skipped every single normal pleasantry and launched directly into what some would consider forbidden knowledge. "Okay." Isaac replied with a nod and walked inside along with Lenna.

"As such, I will be granting your wish tonight." Cainen informed them. None of his words ever held any doubt that what he said would come to pass. It was as if he was spoiling the next chapter of a book that Isaac was reading.

"And what of the payment?" Lenna wondered. She matched Cainen's immediate and direct approach to conversation much better than Isaac had.

"There is an orphanage, in a city known as Bramble. It is not far from here, and was but a small town when I was a child, but now the city has long outgrown the orphanage. There are not very many orphan high elves, but there are enough that the staff of three to four must be paid and there must always be enough food for at least a dozen." Cainen explained. "When those children become of age, they will need money in order to become apprentices or start their own paths. I want you to fund the orphanage one hundred and fifty thousand gold coins every year until your final day on or in Primatia. That is the first payment."

Isaac and Lenna shared a questioning look with each other. The cost of a wish was not really that high, all things considered, and it was even a monetary one which just didn't seem quite right. It almost felt like it was just a build up to whatever the real request was.

Cainen saw, without seeing, straight through what the duo were thinking and continued. "The last thing that I require of you is a bit more nuanced." He began and took a sip of water that Xlen handed him. "I have a grand niece, her name is Calluma Su'Sol, and she has an affliction that, as far as even I am aware, can only be solved with a wish. Luckily for you, she does not want me to wish for her to be normal like all of the other girls her age. Though, that may change once it is too late for her to make such a request of me." The old man took another sip of water as he continued to give them context for the second half of what they would owe him once their wish had been granted.

"Calluma doesn't age like an elf, but rather, like a human would only at one tenth the speed." Xlen cut in to explain. "Right now, she is in the body of a two year old but is actually in her twenties and just as smart, which is to say, she is totally headstrong and is convinced that she will be able to find a way to stop her aging, in the same way that some of the ancient humans used to, and she will be able to live forever. She seems convinced that she has a human soul inside of her that will allow that even though she is clearly pure elf."

"I want you to look after her, help her when she needs it, and find a good teacher for her until she has learned more magic in less time than any before her ever have." Cainen finished. "I know that there is someone close to you who is a prime candidate for teaching such a strange and unique pupil. Looking after her would also ensure her safety while learning under such a person."

Isaac and Lenna shared a very different look. They both knew exactly who Cainen was talking about and Jala L'Vore was not someone that a very young and staturely disabled girl, or anyone for that matter, should learn under. She was unstable and sociopathic to the same level as her genius and mastery of spell sigils and runes. Someone like the Fatebreaker's Grand Niece learning from the Chimera Queen, Prince of Shadows, and Altesia's Youngest Master Wizard, would surely turnout to spawn one of the most powerful young mages in all of history, but Isaac and Lenna would still feel like they were throwing the poor girl to the wolves if they put Jala and Fen in charge of her training with input from Alexander whenever possible.

"We can try." Isaac told Cainen after he and Lenna shared a nod. "Though, I hope she is up for it. Convincing Jala and Fen will be no easy feat, but if we can, Calluma will need to have a brain like a sponge and a will that's as hard as nails."

"You will find that a two year old's learning abilities are far superior to yours or mine." Cainen told him with a smirk.

Isaac's eyes widened as he realized what Calluma had noticed herself. She learned everything so much faster than everyone else her age because her brain was still operating like a two year old's would. That was why she didn't want the Fatebreaker to make her age like everyone else. She had the unique ability to learn at multiple times that rate of everyone else for over a century, and all she had to pay for it was the fact that she would become the only old elf to actually look old, it would even take about a third of a millennium to show the signs of her aging past her prime. She had all of that time to figure out how to stop her aging and she had a century headstart over any other wizard in existence.

"Will she be able to find her own way to Safeharbor?" Isaac wondered.

Cainen nodded. "She will arrive when the time is right." He sort of helpfully explained.

"And the Wish is going to work, right?" Isaac asked before they agreed to anything.

"I hope so, otherwise those children will have a rough future, my grand niece will have an uphill battle until she ages to death, like almost all humans do, and my last wish will be worse than if I had simply asked for the spire to be turned into a giant baguette." Cainen replied. "But yes, I believe that it will work out acceptably."

"Then we have a deal." Isaac told the last fate weaver.

Cainen's smirk widened ever so slightly. "Then meet me where you met Lua, an hour before midnight tonight. It won't be the first full moon of the year, but it will have to do."

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