Blackfeather Woods Insight IV

He nodded, many are in these woods. Taikon did not bother to explain to her that he not only had no stock in such things, but in fact tended to look down upon those who did. He wanted to be accepting, but he had seen what religion could do to communities. He knew how it could be used to control and destroy. He had never seen it do anything good for anyone, especially not those who were most vulnerable.
But he said none of this, for saying it aloud had never won him any friends. Rowan would be a good person to talk to, Taikon told her. He knows about all of the secret things the Ivory Rose do in the deep parts of the Wood, and he is enough of a healer to have helped me. Infection probably would have killed me without him, he explained. He didn't know what he could do to thank him. He didn't even know what the male enjoyed apart from being a zealot.