“The second change was the visions expanding. They no longer confined themselves to sleep. They came during waking hours — flashes that lasted a second or a minute, overlaying reality with images so vivid that Dharmu sometimes could not tell which was the dream and which was the world. He saw battles that had not yet been fought. He saw alliances that had not yet been formed. He saw, with increasing frequency and detail, the girl with dark eyes — older now, standing in a council chamber, her face a mask of composure that concealed a storm of intelligence and calculation.”