Gawain held nothing back and hesitated not at all as he laid out the news from Tarlonnd before Enya.
The Incubation Chamber fell silent. For a time, Gawain and the others said nothing. Only the pale golden runes on Enya's eggshell continued to drift slowly as they always had, showing that the former goddess of the dragons had sunk into thought.
"The Tower of Reverse Tide..." Amber was the first to break the silence. The Half-elf looked extremely tense. "Could it be..."
"There are two things that cannot be explained," Enya's voice came from within the eggshell. "First, Modir's unusual condition does not seem to be the result of contamination from the Reverse Tide. It is clearly connected to the Goddess of the Night, who vanished in ancient times. What connection could there be between the Reverse Tide and the Goddess of the Night? Second, Modir was in a normal state when he left the Tower of Reverse Tide all those years ago. Records of his adventures continued to circulate for many years afterward, and I can be certain that from the time he left until the day of the 'Coming of Age Ceremony,' he never returned to Tarlonnd. It would have been even more impossible for him to come into contact with the Tower of Reverse Tide again. Therefore, his strange condition could not have resulted from contact with that tower—so where did he encounter corruption from god-level power?"
"That's why we've always suspected Violet might be involved too," Amber immediately said. "That country is so mysterious. It feels like some earth-shattering secret is hidden within it. Honestly, I wouldn't even be surprised if we learned one day that divine power was concealed on that huge island—perhaps Modir Wilde visited Violet back then, suffered Divine Contamination there, and even