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range that looked to be equal,
if not more so than his own familiar mountains of the Valley
Lands.
    “I’ve never heard of this land’s existence
before!” Roric said shocked at the discovery before him.
    “At the time of the colonization of this
world it was well known of, but memory of it has passed out of
conscious memory. After the edict was passed by your ancestors
there was no reason to go there.”
    “Edict? By my ancestors?”
    Abby nodded her head, “I was not made aware
to the reason why, but the continent was ruled off-limits by the
First Council. After the technology was lost there was no easy way
of reaching it anyway.
    Memory of it passed away over the years. It
was rumored that there was a vestige of higher technology still in
use there and that the land was to be avoided.”
    Another document came up virtually. “Three
sons of Berniam and their families finding no land that they were
welcome in built ships and sailed southwest toward the forbidden
land called Assoria, never to be heard from again.”
    “What is Berniam?”
    Abby looked like she was remembering
something that wasn’t very clear, “Vaguely I remember an incident’s
of where some of our ancestors were marooned on a habitable moon in
the old galaxy during the great war. The native peoples took them
in and cared for them. Our people rescued our lost ancestors at a
later date from the moon, but the enemy found out and punished the
native people of the moon. Few survived the genocide, but those
that did were rescued and brought along with us even though they
were not of our people. They were looked down upon by our people
mostly because of their smaller size and pagan beliefs. Their
treatment angered my father. Their sacrifice for our people had
been a selfless one and though smaller in size they were formidable
warriors in their own right. He felt sorry for the way they were
treated by our people as inferior outsiders. I had forgotten all
that until you sparked the memory of it.”
    Roric told her of Gavin’s dream.
    “Then you think it is these people of
Berniam from the land of Assoria that my son saw in his
vision?”
    Abby nodded, “They meet the description that
I remember.”
    Roric was silent for a while and then said,
“I need you to print a map that contains all the available
information that we have on the land of Assoria.”
    Abby indicated a large paper that was even
now coming out of a machine, “Consider it done.”
    Roric sat in the chair watching his son
grapple with the same information that had blown him away. The
existence of an entire continent and ethnic people that they hadn’t
even known existed on this very world.
    Shaking his head as if he just couldn’t
believe it Gavin said, “I have to go! I just simply have to. The
Creator’s telling me that these people need His Word and His freely
given salvation, if I interpret the vision right.”
    “Your father and I are also in agreement
that you should go, but only on one condition.” Krista said.
    Gavin stared at her anxiously waiting for
the terms of his release to go on the mission.
    “Your brother will have to accompany you and
be in charge of the entire mission.”
    It wasn’t any concern to Gavin that his
brother was to be in charge that worried him, “You know he won’t
want to go on such a mission!”
    Roric responded thoughtfully, “It’s not that
he wouldn’t want to go on such a mission, because I think he would.
What would keep him from going on such a mission is because he
feels he owes me an unwarranted amount of duty in order to serve as
a replacement for his older brother’s absence.”
    “Exactly! He’ll never leave you father!”
Gavin exclaimed resignedly.
    “He’ll leave because above all else your
brother is a faithful warrior first and foremost and he will obey
any order I give him.”
    Gavin stayed quiet and nodded, surprised at
his father’s willingness to send both of his remaining sons away on
a mission that they both