Synopsis:
The voice in the Rod asks Hiaté what the significance of the relic is, triggering a wave of memory from the girl. In this chapter, Hiaté recalls the rod's origins as the weapon the human warrior Dylan used to seal away the dark force Ekana ages ago, as well as how she was chosen over her brother Haren to recieve his birthright of becoming the next Rodbearer. Trained by her grandfather, Diestat, Hiaté learned the art of summoning, mastering the [majority of] the elements and crafting her first Created, the wind elemental Mopoko. Haren is enraged upon learning this, and attacks Hiaté once they're alone. The girl overpowers her brother, but a strange being floats out of him and sets its eyes on her until her grandfather arrives just in time to seal the beast. Hiaté learns that the creature was one of Ekana's minions, the Urakait, and that it is her destiny to do battle with them one day.
Knocked back into the present, Hiaté finds Sam to be fighting a rapidly losing battle with the Kait he's been left to tend to. Sam's attacks go right through the beast, and the only solution is to seal the creature away, but Hiaté admits she never got that far into her training.
"That day came too soon..." - Hiaté (page 15)