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- Significance
- The Interpreter had noticed my interest in the Princess's airag. 'Come and visit the Shaman with me,' she said.
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- Ritual
- 'The astrologers and idolators that abound in Karakorum have influence, but the Shaman is respected above all...'
- The Shaman took us outside the city walls where, he said, the spirits in the trees and rocks would protect us from the pernicious influence of what we were to discuss.
- 'The Princess has seen something hidden in plain sight,' he told us. 'The ones your people describe as idol-worshippers, though they be followers of many faiths and not at all the same -' the Interpreter translated this rather sharply, as if she held me entirely responsible - 'many of them know of the potency of intoxication. But we shamans understand that the spirit can step out of the body, and sometimes, the essence of something else can enter.'
- We were walking toward a stand of trees. Bats swooped and circled. I had been there before. Waiting for us on a thin wooden chair was an impossibly ancient man.
- 'This is my great-grandfather,' said the Shaman. 'Perhaps now you see that the things the Princess is learning have consequences?'
- Find the rest of the story at: http://silvertree.storynexus.com/
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