"Chael has left the File" She says the words, yet finds the meaning hard to comprehend. She longs to go after him, to find him, to feel his arms around her, and to enter the sanctuary that comes with his presence, but she can not. He will not let her find him.

Azurite pounds her fist onto the oak table, and tears spring to her eyes. Her passion burns in the pit of her stomach. Where Chael had stired love, there now was a seething knot of hatred. Not for the man, but for the situation. Her future is now clear, a path of self destruction. She will do the bidding of Jagang, and she will do it well. It is time to extinguish the flicker of light in her heart, and replace false hope, and whimsical fantasies with the stone cold determination and drive that marked her youth.