Getting a Little Farther ~ by SaralynArati

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10 years ago

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Therefore, with pessimism bordering on paranoia, or at least that's what she tells herself, Summer Wind cannot help wondering if the sudden death, possibly so convenient to the figures in black, was truly an accident. If not, then she doesn't dare risk the life of a teen of Bowing Tree; the entire point in coming here was to save them! When she confesses her fears to Kanu, though, he does not make light of them. It is a strange coincidence, but who in the village is an informant when awake?

10 years ago

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Kanu cannot draw, but he has an excellent eye for detail, and Summer Wind is a gifted artist, although she rarely uses this particular talent. However, when they return to the shack of the drug supplier later that day, he has stopped saying, "Bright and shiny and new." The man will never tell anyone anything again, as unfortunately, he has died of an apparent overdose. Summer Wind now feels reluctant to show the likenesses to any of the young people; her plan was no secret in the village.

10 years ago

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A thought is beginning to brew in Summer Wind's brain, but it is still, as yet, very nebulous. Besides, to confirm this ridiculous suspicion, she would need a portrait of Ahi'i, and even that might not prove anything. Still, it is always best to keep an open mind. The mage decides to ask Kanu to help her make sketches of the two women and one man in black that he saw the night before... just in case they might be familiar to someone: this drug dealer or one of the pack running teens, perhaps.

10 years ago

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This suggests that she did not, in fact, come from any local tribal village, but rather much farther to the east, from the city or its immediate surroundings. It seems almost positive that, at her height, Ahi'i the short would be an outcast. Kanu is not sure, but he thinks that the rule is that, if a child has not reached five feet by the time they are twelve, he or she is exiled to the wild. Just exactly how new were her coins? Had she been back to the city somehow in the past few years?

10 years ago

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There is not much more that is useful that he can tell them, except the type of currency that the tiny girl paid him with. That is interesting. Because most people this far from the city to the east pay in common trade money, or very worn coins of the ruler before the newest monarch to take the throne. But not Ahi'i. Her coins were bright and shiny, and featured the current king. The drug dealer is an addict of his own product, and keeps repeating, "Bright and shiny and new," delightedly.

10 years ago