Sepharod said to Miranda, "Do you not remember how the one who spoke to you about this approached you? It should have been like this." He came quite a bit closer to Miranda, enough for her to wonder what he was doing, and he whispered then to her. "What hope do you have for anything here still making you happy?" He moved back a little, and said, "You must have responded that there was nothing to be happy about anymore while Hamrod still ruled here. That was the basis for you being told to come here for finding what could still bring happiness back, with the one who would deliver us from him. And so it is you came. When you hear that response from another when you ask that same thing that you were asked, you are to tell them that same thing, that they would come here as soon as they can. This is a way station for those first coming here, many of the rest here also just came, and are seeing Jagaron the first time. You would soon be ready, I think, to be guided to our main quarters that we use for meeting, that place where Jagaron had made demonstrations of some of his power, that impress us that he is the one to deliver us. If you would like, we will bring you now to speak further with him."

Jagaron could still be seen in here, a little ways from them across this dim room, standing where he was speaking just then with one woman who seemed to be a little older than Miranda. That woman seemed familiar to her.