The Shepherd's auburn eyes lit up with a deep sense of anticipation at Rui's words. Her expression was one of deep eagerness and enthusiasm for what was to come. It was at moments like these that her entire path and life as an immortal sage were validated.
'When was the last time I felt like this?'
Her eyes grew hazy with a distant memory.
An image of a young Rael standing before, beckoning her for her knowledge several centuries ago. She felt an even greater convergence of fate in this moment than she had back then.
The many centuries of knowledge that she had accrued, all the time that she had spent studying each society, nation, and civilization scrupulously, and the even greater time she spent identifying patterns in her many decades of work that pointed to fundamental truths of human civilization.
