20
DEMON DUST
“What did I just do?” Rashel asked Yeolani instinctively across the distance. How far, she wondered but could not calculate. Instead, she looked around in awe. The sun shone down noon high, and she saw along the horizon no sign of the mountains, the forest, civilization or anything else she recognized. As far as the eye could tell, in every direction, she saw nothing but green waves of grass. This was Yeolani’s world. He was the King of Plains. Why had she been called here?
“You went to where the call drew you – halfway to nowhere in the southeast,” Yeolani answered, and she could have wept in relief at hearing his matter-of-fact reply in her mind.
“How far away am I? And how did I do that?” she asked in wonder.
“You handed me the baby and went to answer a distress cry f
