Hidden in a cavern called the Lurelight Halls, Seraphine taught them ancient rites. Here, memories could be summoned but at a cost.
Liora and Jalen stood in the center of a circle of stones, hands clasped.
"If your bond is true," Seraphine whispered, "you will see your past lives. All of them."
Light burst forth. One by one, memories spun around them: past lives where they had been lovers through war, through kingdoms rising and falling, as scholars, farmers, even rebels. In every life, they found each other sometimes for only a moment, sometimes for years.
But one life ended with betrayal Dianne stabbing Jimma under a moonless sky. Liora screamed and fell to her knees.
"I would never" she sobbed.
"But you did," Seraphine said softly. "And yet love found you again. That is the power the Hollow fears."