Brother Cassius had pulled out a journal and was scribbling notes frantically. "The Beacon of Hope," he muttered. "I've seen references to it in fragmentary texts, but I always thought it was metaphorical. What is it exactly?" The voices hummed with something that might have been amusement. But creating it requires seven souls to bind themselves to the light eternally, to become one with it as we did with this smaller sphere. It is a sacrifice from which there is no return."
