“Things will get better, Jerilyn, they always do.  I’ve lived through this before, remember?  Living off the land is a bit rough at first, but soon the survivors will start rebuilding.  After we part company, I don’t know where I’ll go, but wherever I settle, it won’t be the same as it was.  The world is different now.  The Blue Lagoon, the Towerof Renk, the Grove, those were special places, the Grove most of all.  In your day, only Kandol’s home atop the Mountainof Cloudscame close to rivaling it.  In this new world, where the ancient Gods and Heaven are no more, the Grove is but a legend from a time long lost.  I am an anomaly, Jerilyn, born in an age so far gone that it has faded from fable.”  The Wizard of the Blue Lagoon