Book excerpt: Every world has a forerunner ...Not just a "voice crying in the wilderness." But one who serves as a picture of what is to come. Such was Pentra for the Lands of the Adoni. Pentra dreamed of the Knights of Es-Soh-En. He knew that he could never be all that they were. His weak eyes and weak arms disqualified him from military service. And so he dreamed. He wrote. And he collected the stories of his heroes. But then one day ...