Sky Fleet Of Atlantis

She screamed when they told her. They drew back from her and the priests tried to comfort her, but she refused to let them calm her. "We've waited so long for him," she wept, "and now you'll take him from us." "No, no," they said soothingly, but in a way she was right and they knew it. Her husband stood beside her, looking strained and unhappy. She turned on him too. "You could stop them!" she cried. "It is written," he said helplessly. "How can we argue with the Seers?" (opening paragraphs)