One thing I have learned from living for so long right now is that I had learned the benefits of waiting. I had discovered the joy of knowing when to strike, so when I realized that the King was talking to Kentan, I retreated and went back to my Ritual Grounds and thought of what my next move should be. But it was not that as easy as pie. It took everything in me to stop myself from confronting the Kiong, who obviously were following the instructions of a deity that wants to kill Nievo for his own benefit. And because the King wanted for his wife to come back to life, it seems that he was tricked into believing that it was possible as long as he follows whatever Kentan was going to say to him. "Is that how a deity comes back from being a human?" Collette asked me when I told her and the

