It was a curious thing to be in service to someone your whole life and only feel like you know bits and pieces of them. It was even more frustrating when someone who lacked that person's skills and mentality took over… and you were supposed to continue to service faithfully. It had never been against her wishes but Rose had felt like she had been between a rock and a hard place. Judge had given her the Book of Days. An ominous yet silly name for a book that spoke of future events. He had told her to take it to Mendean but by the time that Rose had regained her powers and was in control Mendean had fallen.

Torn as she had been Rose had decided to chuck the key from the House of Keys into the raging ocean beneath the Hanging Gardens. Even more curious than her new found freedom was just who picked up the key. She had been alone, without Valnar AGAIN. She had been laying in bed and suffering through her loneliness when the vision had hit her. The dark haired man that she had come to know as her aunt's husband was picking the key up. The divine energy was surging around him and she found herself heaving as she threw herself over the side of the bed. She caught the air in her throat as she dry-heaved. The power that she felt was overwhelming similar to those who she had been bound to. The bile left her lips and soon her mother was in her room quite shaken as she held her eldest's daughters hair back.

"Rose what the hell is going on?" Toya's voice cracked as Rose weakly began to pull herself up holding onto her mother. "You are scaring me, Rose." She had always scared her mother with her visions. Sometimes they were violent and other times they had a direct impact on she was feeling and how sick she could be.

With a last heave, the oracle reached up and wiped her mouth off on the edge of her robe. "There is a new God of Knowledge and you know him well." Rose's odd blue eyes looked up at her mother. "It is Aunt Angela's husband Adraejen." She was sure that the half-elf had never laid eyes on her but Rose knew his face. She knew his face from all the visions that this world had brought her… That and she had been in the back watching as they celebrated the birth of their youngest Rohan. Rose was quiet, unlike her mother.

"And what you are just going to just to him and slave your life away? You've given too much to the gods Rose… Just please don't leave home." Toya's voice was cracking again and Rose was quick to hug her mother tightly. "It's not fair… everytime you leave it's like I lost both you and your brother." In a rare moment of weakness, Toya was crying all over her. The oracle pet the woman's head softly.

"I know but I can come home whenever I like… There are things that I must do as an oracle and this is one of them. I'm afraid that the spirits quite like this Adraejen… That means I have to go and be of use but I will be home. He will not keep me away from you and you will not lose me like you lost Costel." She pressed her lips to her mother's forehead and was quick to lead her back to Blaine and her's bedroom. Blaine had found them half way there and took the overbearing Toya from the oracle. Rose offered a smile and before long she was on her way to Parvpora.

As soon as she had found the grounds she didn't even have to read the door to open it. Her hands did exactly what it did to the House of Keys. It blasted the damn doors wide open and she stood there almost shocked. Her breathing was heavy again as she walked into the temple. She hadn't been to a god's realm but Angela's… Hers hadn't felt like this. The blood that flowed through Rose was pumping so hard that she couldn't hear. That was when the realm began to come undone.  The walls began to ribbon around her and she found herself in a pitch black area as the temple seemingly decided to run away from her. It had to have been the apple… that cursed silver apple. After she calmed herself there was a stoic look as she snapped her fingers. It was like a charge of energy as the ribboned room began to fix. "That is quite enough of you." She wasn't speaking to the temple but something else entirely. "Adraejen?" For fear of undoing the rest of his temple, she stood at the bottom in the library. Her voice had been soft and quiet for she was in a library but the psionic noise carried to its target. "I know you've felt my presence by now… I am Rose."

Adraejen was busy plotting the moons' cycles as they corresponded with the seasons and the constellations in the heavens that were most visible in the skies when both were in their fullest phase when the young woman came crashing in. He wasn't sure which was the more disconcerting thing: the fact that the girl practically blew the front doors of their hinges or the fact that the Knowledge part of his domain was literally trying to run and hide from her. Tar Eisalae was quickly righting the doors, but Drae felt that this was definitely something he needed to attend to immediately. From where he had been working in the Occulus, he teleported easily down into the Temple Library and materialized as Rose softly spoke out to him telepathically. 

He looked at the young woman, his arms folded across his chest as he considered her. She was clearly a Rosenite, but was not one of Angela's children. He had come to know that there were many of her children that he had not met yet, and figured at least one of them would walk into his domain. This girl was different, and he had met most of Angela's still living siblings.

"Rose. That's right, you are Toya's eldest. The Oracle," he commented, his silver eyes looking her over. "I saw you at Rohan's christening. Do you mind explaining to me why Tar Eisalae is having a hard time getting Knowledge to stay where its supposed to be because it is quite literally terrified of you? Or why you saw fit to blast my doors open instead of entering politely?" he asked her, not upset, but stern with a hint of curiosity in his tone. 

There was a soft blush that came over Rose's pale features. "That was an accident." She didn't want this new god mad at her. "And I'm not yet sure why it is scared of me." She appeared to be musing and then it hit her like a ton of bricks. "Oh…" Her blue eyes were curious as she moved to touch something in the realm and it quickly tried to get away. Her brow wrinkled as she seemed to be in contemplation. "I think I know why." But before she went on to explain to him why the realm was reacting to her in such a way she gave a smile.

"My mother sends her regards… she is not doing so well right now I am afraid. Most days she is alright but there are some days when she struggles with the loss of my brother."  She put her hands together and moved away from the bookshelves. She let Knowledge stay far away from her without distorting the temple she was in. "I was once a high priestess and oracle of knowledge and wisdom." She took a deep breath. "But that's not why it's scared of me. Are you aware of the worlds' convergence? Of DaeLuin's people falling into the realm of Revaliir?" Her blue eyes studied Drae and for a moment she chuckled. She must have realized in that moment that her and Drae were practically the same age. It amused her. "Does my aunt always rob the cradle or only on special occasions." It was her way of lightening the mood for the moment.  It was clear that she was putting together exactly what she wanted to say and how she was going to say. It was a far cry from her mother who just yelled whatever popped into her head.

"Back there… in his temple, there was this tree. A giant green tree full of silver apples." She hesitated for a moment. "Let me show you." She held her hand out to Drae and beckoned him to take it. When he took her hand the world lit up around them. There stood the old god and a very young Rose. She had to have been Sapphire's age. He was handing her the silver apple. The oracle had bitten it without question already knowing what it was. The pain and suffering after that moment and her screams filled the air but the god stood there and did nothing for his oracle. When it was over her eyes were glossy and stood back up. The vision ended. "It is an apple filled with the world's knowledge. That is why your Knowledge is so afraid of me. For I know but I do not know. I know as much as you do aside from the geographical aspects of Revaliir. I am not all knowing but enough."

"I am very aware of the Convergence. It seems that most of your family came across the void, as well as people who strive to be part of the family," he said, thinking of the young man who had paid him a visit not too long ago with the intention of asking Drae for his permission to court his step-daughter Sapphire.

"Rose, your aunt is like a milennia old. Even some of the oldest high elves would be young to her," Drae pointed out as an answer to the cradle robbing question, with a smile on his face. He looked at her expectantly, waiting for the explanation that she seemed to have come up with and she asked him to take her hand so that she could show him. He didn't question and suddenly he was swept up into her memories. The vision enveloped Drae and he watched, his eyes narrowing upon seeing the silver apple that the long lost god handed to a Rose who was not much older than Sapphire. Suddenly it made more sense to him, and the vision ended with Rose's screams of pain as she absorbed all Knowledge from that one little bite of apple. As the vision faded from around them, Drae nodded slowly.

"That makes a lot of sense. You carry all the Knowledge of another world, which may in fact cause a paradox here. That is why it flees from you," he commented. "But now that I know it, I can take precautions." He snapped his fingers and suddenly the Temple Library snapped back into place, the spatial contortion created by Knowledge trying to run from Rose immediately righted. 
"For the time being, I have placed you in a small nullifying zone, which has hidden the effects of your Knowledge of DaeLuin from the Knowledge of Revaliir," he explained. "I'll keep it on you until you leave the library," he said. "But I want you to follow me. I think I have found some things you might find very interesting," he said, motioning for her to follow him through the shelves of books to the Western Archway. 

The Relic Room was a part of Tar Eisalae that Drae was the most proud of beside the Occulus. A collection of items from events and Gods past and present, and other oddities, that he had collected over several years. It was still small, and he had plans to grow his collection, but that was neither here nor there. What he wanted to show her, however, he was pretty sure she was going to find interesting. 

"This is the Relic Room," he explained to her. "Throughout my life, I've been collecting things that I've found that have been associated with deities new and old. Things that just sort of showed up in Iria on the docks as powerful items," he said. "I have two, however, I think will mean something to you personally," he said simply and lead her to a pedestal.  In the middle of a protective ward that glowed a faint blue was a key. "This one… is my more recent acquisition…"