And all of this, like Ka'eeneh's odd fear of uncovered bodies, was traced back to the commands of the mysterious Sacred Person, Lao'ue.
"I like it not," said Great Grandmother, when Nala and I related this to her. "It suggests some conflict among the Sacred Folk, which bodes no good for us. I must speak to them at length, come Solstice...and perhaps consider what not to tell them, also."
That was something no one had thought before, and it worried us.
As we walked back to the village Nala told me of yet another worry. "Ka'eeneh was not ashamed of his family's strange customs," she said, "Yet he seems of two minds about this Lao'ue, and he still conceals some great shame about something. We have not yet discovered his mystery."
"It is not, I think, only an inheritance from his family,"
