Raine almost laughs. It’s funnier now than it was then, especially with one of the grand orchestrators occasionally dragged to linger dolefully in her kitchen and take the cooking from her hands. They have lived legends, haven’t they? “It rather is the subject of ours. Or it would be, if the full truth was known.” A quiet sigh. It’s a shame that can’t be, more than likely. “But Mithos, the hero, is a story almost everyone in our world knows. Has known, for about four thousand years.”

(She hopes against all hope that his is not a ghost that will pass through.)

“The spell was originally created to seek out those of sufficient caliber and determination to help stop Malicant, after all.” Usually, Raine finds, that sort of person has done or will do a great deal more than the average.