Aalyan
Finding Tlessi sitting on one of the rocks by the cave’s entrance a couple of mornings later was a surprise. After receiving confirmation that the babies were okay, he hadn’t expected to see the elder again for a while.
“Good day,” the shaman greeted him with a nod.
“Good day.” Aalyan wasn’t sure it would be, after all, in the past Tlessi had brought him the kind of revelations that had shaken his world. He didn’t want any more of that, he’d found some peace in his work helping with the cassava and he needed it too badly to look at anything that could disturb it as anything but a threat.
“Do not fear,” Tlessi told him, easily reading his discomfort. “I have come with only questions, no answers.”
That was certainly new, Aalyan thought. “Would you like some water and fruit?” he o
