Ankyra Sound blood ties

Sialuk listened to the child's explanation, the single-word description pairing with her own knowledge of spirits and ancestors quite nicely. I know them as spirits, ancestors, Sialuk said. She had not seen them, but their whispers came to her when she spent time with the bones, or when she listened to the wind in the trees on Moonspear's slopes. What did this spirit—loa—do? she asked, curious to know if this child also had a strong connection to the otherworld as she had her whole life.

Her own gaze fell on the grotto where the child had indicated she had seen the spirit, and Sialuk expected the apparition to appear at any moment.