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TREE IN A STORM
Yeolani froze in horror. His wife had disappeared out of his mind, untrained and far away. He couldn’t follow her, not with a baby to take care of. Yeolani strained to resist his impulse to turn into a tornado and rip across the countryside toward her, but there was no way to keep Nevai safe with him at the same time. Whom could he find to tend him?
Yeolani’s mind switched to a different search. He debated whether to call Honiea and ask her for childcare. However, something in him knew Honiea would chide him for not teaching Rashel before she left him and make him deal with the consequences. No, that would not work. What about someone in town? The only person he knew by name was the neighbor, Norton, who was laid up in bed with deadly wounds still to heal. That would
