"What power?"

"Velléda's."

Vorski eyed him with renewed uneasiness:

"Velléda?"

"Yes, or at least the woman whom I call Velléda, the last of the Druidesses: I don't know her real name."

"Where is she?"

"Here."

"Here?"

"Yes, on the sacrificial stone. She's asleep."

"What, she's asleep?"