“Remember your father’s words. But equally remember your mother’s words. Only with the two together can you find peace. The object. You might see in sleep, might hear. But only as man and woman. The object can destroy. The object can save. But only for the man and woman together. Together, guide the salvation of others.”
We needed each other. We needed the object.
And we packed to leave. My baby aurochs grew into the massive adults we had known and loved on the other side of the lake, and we loaded the object onto a sled and hitched it to my aurochs to drag across the mountains to come.
Following the instruction of local traders, we followed a valley farther and farther into this new land. The lands were green, full of forests, and the tall mountains reached the clouds. We came to the e
