Whitebark Stream Temperance is a Virtue I Lack

dyenen; to be a man of medicine among the lanzadoii was to stand apart in isolation. they were called dyenendoii. they kept the secret ways that even sun eater did not know, the sacred plants; they spoke with leadership. they were behind some band squabbles and mediated others; they had their own spies and their own enchanted animals, it was said. the darkest among the dyenendoii, some claimed, could make skin-changers of themselves.

the ailing, exhausted boy before him did not seem as if he could be a vessel for such things. but sun eater did not doubt him. power came in many vessels.

quietly he set an easier pace back to the riverland claimed by their sun clan, gesturing kekoa into a copse of taiga pines for his rest. sun eater would watch over the nearby area until their healer woke.