AFTER several hours of waiting inside the Equinox, Mirah heard a beeping alarm on the scanner. She was sitting alone on the bridge while the others gathered supplies to move to another ship when the rebel groups arrived in the valley. Mirah needed rest. She had not gotten any good sleep since before they had fled Kosiva and the exhaustion was catching up with her. Ramah was stable and doing fine, in fact, when Mirah had returned from her dinner to relieve Emil in the Infirmary, she had found the two young people so engrossed in one another's company that she had decided to just leave them alone. Someone had to remain on the bridge monitoring the scanner for activity, so with pillow in hand she had taken a post in one of the bridge flight chairs listening for any new developments.
Mirah tapped the intercom. "Kale, the scanner is picking up what looks like a group of ships heading toward the valley."
"I'm on my way," he replied.
Within moments, Kale and Juli appeared on the bridge. He surveyed the panel and confirmed Mirah's report. "It looks like four or five different groups. Ours is coming from Sector City to the east and the others are approaching from the south and west. Hopefully we'll have a good number of soldiers once all of the groups get together."
"From what you've been telling me," said Mirah, "it still might not be enough."
"This battle won't be won by numbers anyway," said Kale. "Either Elithias will give us the victory or we won't have it at all. I've been studying some of the scrolls that Aija left on board and information back at the base library. This valley is mentioned in one of the prophecies."
"What does it say?" asked Mirah.
"It said a son of man will be an instrument of The Eternal One in that day when the Mithrial sons shall gather to oppose him in the Valley of Sayir…and he shall bring the judgment of Elithias upon them with no weapon in his hand."
"What does it mean?" asked Juli.
"I can only assume it is referring to Father."
"How do you know?" asked Mirah.
"Aija did tell Father that he's supposed to lead these rebels as an army against Lucin and his forces and here we are gathering at Sayir just like the prophecy says. This has to be where and when the battle is going to take place," explained Kale.
"But our people are the only ones out here," said Juli optimistically.
"I'm just going by what the prophecy states will happen-maybe Lucin arrives later."
"How long until your father and the others arrive?" asked Mirah.
"According to the sensors, the different groups will be coming into the valley in about fifteen minutes. We transmitted the coordinates to Father and he said he would be heading this way with Grod and Wynn."
"I hope he will arrive with the others," said Mirah. "I miss him already."