"Would you calm down?" Neirenn said. "You're going to give yourself an aneurysm." She would probably have found it funnier if the situation wasn't so serious--Calm down. You can't do anything about it yet. Just tell her the facts of the situation. Except for the one that she got pulled out of the past.

Unfortunately, that meant she had to admit that she was as good as powerless when it came to the darkness. "As far as I know... no," she said. "I haven't met someone yet who's strong enough to break through it, and I haven't been able to do so myself. It's being made by someone called Maleficent." This next sentence was going to sound ridiculous, but it was what Yorda had told her--"She's an evil fairy, so she has a lot more power than I do."