3-060, "Shadows of Mystery"

Tolohe rubbed her chin in thought while staring into the half-empty cup of tea.  “Well… I detect that not everyone was pleased, including my sister, Mihai.  Meter, I trust to your wisdom.  As for the woman…?  I do not know her well.  She served under my command for a time, but only as a common officer.  When observing her I find few secrets.  She hides herself so well in shadows of mystery, something that I believe has been the doing of your hands.”

She frowned.  “There exists a power within the woman that troubles my spirit.  It is dangerous, barely contained, and smells of evil.  Had it not been at your very hand she was delivered here, I would say a demon raised from hell the woman to be.  Yet I know her not to be such, for you have sealed her heart in lasting life.  I trust you.”

Ma-we smiled, nodding, “Others of your kind have not been so generous with my choice.  They see her as a bastard child of these realms, an unfit usurper of privileged powers.”

Tolohe picked up her cup of tea, drinking the remainder down before saying, “You have purposes secreted from the wisest of your children.  PalaHar has spoken of this to me.  He is both troubled and amused.  He and I both trust fully in your actions and accept this child of the earth into our inner circle.  My hope…  No!  I am certain that my brothers and sisters will come around and not only accept her as our new leader, but become willing to learn at her feet the ‘ways of the North’.”

Thanking Tolohe, Ma-we added,  “You speak with discernment.  The child’s heart is twisted by the very ‘forges of hell’ that have engulfed her old world in violence down to this day.  But it is by such a twisted heart that salvation shall come to your people in later days and… and at the Prisoner Exchange.”

Tolohe wondered,  “PalaHar says the woman has no feelings, but stands as emotionless as a mountain wall.  How will my people trust her if they can see no love or compassion flowing from her?”

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