Swiftcurrent Creek pearls

lestan felt all the verve leave him at that. "i am not sure," he said, maintaining some studied tone. "but i mean to find out." he sighed, a small sad smile clinging now to his mouth. 
it meant something to him that akavir named it too as a curse. "haven't you ever felt it? something following your surname, cousin?" he urged, not yet knowing it was a plead for his relative to know him as he was.
"i-i told you! we have another cousin, out there." maybe lestan had been going to find him. "if i-i brought him here, would you speak to him? we've spoken nothing of this curse, of course, i only met him once. but if we can find seven, akavir — we can rout this evil."