"Hauke is cursed," the dark-feathered sorcerer said, addressing not only Odette but all of the gathered people in the Great Hall, speaking as though he was giving a lecture to a gathering of researchers and scholars. "He was cursed sometime during the battle, perhaps from the very beginning of the battle."
"He is trapped within his own mind," Aspakos continued, raising his voice to speak louder over the sudden whispers and exclamations from the crowd. "He can see and he can hear, but he cannot control his own body and until this moment, he could not speak. He has been this way ever since Lady Ashlynn used her Severing Knife to free him from the control of the Ancestors."
