The Heartwood And will dead lips to speak?

Breaking this bit up until the next post so that there is no form of accidental power-playing over Dreven

 "I do. I will not leave without pain of death or if the damned orders it."

Khasni heard truth, and would hear of nothing else.

You have accepted the heartwood, and so the heartwood accepts you. Come forth so that I may present you to the elders. They have not seen your soul in its new form, but they shall soon.

If the harbinger came closer as bid, then she would break the space between them completely and gesture for the man to lower his head.