Chapter 16Joshua moved into the new room and I set about the young one's education. We exchanged the pleasantries of names and backgrounds, vague and incomplete to be sure, then settled in to the task at hand. I found him a quick study, eager to learn from my centuries of experience and an ardent lover. He adjusted well, once the transformation was explained to him. He had not known his maker, had only happened upon him on the road into town. He said they had walked a ways together, conversing about the nature of good and evil. The man had been smooth, handsome, and rather nervous. He had talked of powers beyond the ability of mortal man to understand, and the great duty that came with it, of wanting to be rid of it, to hand it off to another. I suppose Joshua was his chosen recipient.
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