Once they reached the palace Trend and Tyle went off, Lucid
sat down with Jones and discussed the future of the royal
tradition. Lucid talked to Jones and told him he was going
to make Shantra his empress. Jones was pleased, but told
Lucid that before making any final decisions he wanted him
to see a very special lady.
"This lady", Jones said "was your fathers' personal adviser,
she possessed mighty powers". Lucid told Jones that if it
would please him he would see this lady. Jones arranged a
meeting for the next day.

It was early in the morning and as Lucid waked next to
Shantra.
"Where are you going?" She asked. Lucid told her he had to
go for a meeting concerning the wedding ceremony.
"I'll be back before you have the chance to miss me". As
Lucid walked out the bedroom he thought to himself that it
was better Shantra wouldn't know of his meeting, for she
might catch cold feet and leave him. He wasn't going to risk
that possibility.  
Jones was waiting downstairs and asked Lucid if he was ready
for the meeting, Lucid replied:
"Lets just get this over with; you'll see that shantra and I
were meant to be together". Jones nodded in agreement and
they entered the limousine and drove off.
"The meeting is behind the old cemetery, on the other side
of town," Jones said.
"Why does she live there? No one lives there anymore." Asked
Lucid.
"You're father always pled with her to move away from there,
but she insisted that it was very important for her to live
near the spirits, she said they made her visions clearer".
They drove for some time and when they arrived at the house,
a small wooden cabin, Jones knocked on the door. As it
opened Lucid saw an old woman, with long white hair falling
down to her thighs and very wise looking light bleu eyes.
The old women greeted them both and invited them inside.
"Hello Lucid, I'm Sara, your father was very dear to me, I
will miss him". Lucid looked at her and said:
"I understand that you were dear to my father as well; I
hope you could enlighten me as you did my father"
"Let us begin." Said Sara, and they walked into the back
room.

In the room stood a table, two chairs and a small metal
stick with a hand figure at its edge.
"Sit down Lucid, and tell me what I can try to see for you.
Relax and close your eyes. Take a deep breath and exhale
slowly". Lucid did as Sara asked him. With in moments he
hypnotized. When Sara felt Lucid was ready, she asked him to
give her his right hand. Sara then took the small metallic
stick and placed its edge, which had a small hand in the
center, on Lucid's head.
"Tell me what you see, Lucid" Sara said.  
"I see Shantra" Lucid replied. Then from the metal hand
figure a cloud appeared as if exiting Lucid's thoughts. In
the cloud Sara saw several visions of Shantra. One as a
child in the woods, another was Shantra in the pond bathing
and then Sara noticed something disturbing, Shantra was
sitting with her arms crossed and repeating a word over and
over again. Sara used all her power to try and make out the
word. It was 'Lucid'. Sara removed the metal stick from
Lucid's head and as Lucid was slowly getting back to
consciousness Sara thought of the significance of the vision
she had just seen.

When Lucid came back to himself he asked Sara what she had
seen.
"Lucid, It seems you have found me in a difficult situation,
on the one hand I feel you should be with Shantra and go
ahead with the wedding, but on the other I see something
disturbing about her, although I cant quite see what it is.
I know that Shantra is a very special person, but special
could mean lots of things. If you want my advice Lucid, I
would wait until you knew Shantra better before you made any
significant decisions". Lucid looked at Sara and said:
"I thank you Sara for your words but I feel as if I knew
Shantra my whole life, and if something will happen to me it
is a price I'm ready to pay".  Sara and Lucid shook hands
and Lucid and Jones drove off.

When they arrived at the palace they talked for a while
about the meeting. After all was said and done, Jones gave
his blessing and told Lucid that it would be done. In the
next few days the wedding preparations were postponed in
order to pay respects to Lucid's father.
One week later Lucid and Shantra were wed in front of the
town's people. The people were very excited with the new
emperor and accepted his new empress with great affection.
They were not bothered by her deformity.
Another week past by and Lucid and Shantra were living their
new life together pleasantly. One night Shantra came out of
the bathroom, wearing a silk robe and her body still wet.
She sat on the bed and took out Lucid's black pipe. "Do you
want to smoke some herbs?" Shantra asked. Lucid nodded yes
and went to the drawer and took some herbs.
Shantra took in the first hit from the black pipe.
"What am I into?" Shantra asked. Lucid looked at her, her
eyes were bright purple.
"You're into 'human' Lucid said and took a hit from the
pipe. A few minutes past by and Shantra noticed that Lucid's
eyes were also purple,
"You're also into 'human' "she told him. Shantra leaned back
on the bed, her breasts were revealed from under the silk
robe. Shantra put out her hand to Lucid and asked him to
come to her. Lucid undressed and went over to the bed where
Shantra lay naked. They began making love.
A few minutes past by when all of a sudden Shantra cried
out. Lucid's face turned pale white and his eyes turned
red.
"Hand me the pipe!" said Lucid with his last breath, but
instead Shantra took the pipe and lit it for herself.  After
she inhaled deeply, she spoke out "You know me better than
you think lucid. Because of you I had to live alone and
leave all I knew behind me. After I ran away to the forest
my deformity began, and I was ashamed to come back to
society. The little girl you saw last at the sacred pond
fifteen years ago has returned to you lucid, only to let you
go again. Now you will learn about being alone." Lucid had a
look of dis belief and as he reached out for shantra, she
inhaled once more from the pipe and lucid disappeared..
Shantra looked outside the window and saw a big rainbow
moon; she formed into bat-like form and flew outside.