The impatient pounding on her door startled her. Setting her book down, she rose with a quiet grace and moved across the room to open the door. The motion of the door interrupted Maya's frantic pounding. "Mely...I found this..." Maya handed Mely the leather book. Melyanna stared at the embossed cover with its one word Kirel. If not for her grip on the door, she would have fallen as she felt her knees go weak. With a quiet "Diola lle," Mely closed the door and sank into a nearby chair. Slender fingers slowly traced over the letters, her heart pounding with a combination of excitement, fear and dread. Leaning back, she opened the book and began reading.
Hours later, Melyanna closed the book with a soft thud, tears staining her cheeks. The book was a journal. Kirel had apparently taken to writting in it after his departure for Fire Isle. From his entries, Mely now understood his desire to return there. The final entry though, had caught her attention. And it was that entry that had her murmuring the words of power and appearing before the Ostar tower. "CELEB!!" she shouted as she ran into the building searching for the sea elf. "Celeb...could you help me?"