Small discrepancies like that popped up from time to time. The major events of his life were unchanged in this new history. Rina had found him and his partner Sebastian in a jail cell, awaiting execution for the crime of “fornication.” Which, in that backward, little village, meant two men loving each other. Rina had freed them both and taken Tommy under her wing. When Sebastian betrayed their group, Rina had killed him.
The major beats of his story were identical to the ones Desa knew, but the minute details were different sometimes. If she didn’t know better, she would have sworn that the cosmic beings – these so-called Primordials – had changed just enough to ensure that Tommy would never completely trust her.
Rina’s meditation technique was essentially the same as the one Desa had us
