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I've only seen two Joinings outside my own. Antoine's, and now Flynn's.
Antoine's hands were shaking. He was dying. He said it was nice to meet me. Then he took the chalice and I still remember the way his eyes rolled back too far. He screamed something in Orlesian, but I didn't speak any then and he doesn't remember what he said.
I wasn't on my deathbed when I took the Joining. I remember all of it. What it felt like, what I saw. I wasn't alone like Antoine or Flynn, either. Beryl raised the chalice like it was a toast. She made it through and so did I, but there were three names on our Joining list.
Nadia, we remember you.
—Excerpt from Evka's journal [[ru:]]