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Prices (1989) In 1979, the same year I first read Sword, there was made-for-TV movie starring Lindsay Wagner called The Incredible Journey of Dr. Meg Laurel, which had a powerful impact on the development of the Alternate Shannara Universe. In the movie, when the heroine is sick with pneumonia, the old Grannywoman administers the sulfa that was supposed to be injected (I can't remember what happened to the syringes) by cutting the heroine's arm. This became the method-of-choice for administering the necessary substances that the Druids used in their life-extension process. (My husband, ever the comedian, said they were "smacking formaldehyde." Hint: don't try this at home kids, I'm serious.) Though the results of the process are effective, the entire experience is far less than pleasant. .

. Some 10 years after her father's death, Andrea travelled to Valg Island. This island, located in the Eastern Sea, between the Four Lands and Jarabor, is the training place of the Gnome wizards of Jarabor. Both Bremen and later Allanon completed the training process, acquiring abilities not possessed in full by other Druids. This picture depicts Andrea's attempt to persude the Overwizard Terrill to permit her to take the training. A Test for a Test (1989)

Choices (1989) The remaining Druids fought a sporadic battle against the remnants of the Skullfollowers for many years. At one point the Skullfollowers joined forces with a powerful band of robbers. David was taken captive, and Andrea, her children Alaric and Jessica, and Jamie's youngest daughter Winter found themselves cornered. Taking advantage of the non-corporal aspect of the Druid Sleep was the only means of escape, but Jessica and Winter had not yet made the decision whether to become full Druids. Left to right: Jessica, Andrea, Winter .

. Andrea was over 300 years old when Beatrice Tambrel (right), Jessica's great-granddaughter, came to Paranor from Beryllia. Tris--made a Druid by her grandmother, Haley--was intrigued by the busy life of the Druids' Keep, filled with students from throughout the Four Lands. Allina (the daughter of Alaric and Winter), was too absorbed in her own worries to help her cousin adjust. And soon all of them would find themselves on the edge of destruction. Cousins (1993)