Ayesha Chapter 3 - The Beacon Light

In which two travellers brave the bitter cold and perilous heights of a forbidding mountain to seek a mysterious light seen in a dream, enduring hardship and receiving solemn counsel from an aged abbot about love, fate, and the agonies entwined with their quest. Thus prepared, they await the thaw of winter and the passage beyond the desert, their hearts full of hope and the weighty anticipation of unknown trials that stretch before them.