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Though he showed no outward sign of it, Aureli was surprised to meet with a leader so young. One of his ears twisted toward Delos as if the boy might say something — but, as Delos had pointed out, the boy was always polite.

"I am sorry to hear of your loss," Aureli replied, disappointed in his own right to have missed the opportunity to share in the late moonwoman's knowledge. He inferred that Arrluk must have taken up the mantle with the passing of more elderly leaders. Or, perhaps, the same plague that took all the others had struck them down here. he would ask about it more thoroughly another time.

"I do come to offer my skills," he replied with a dip of his head. "In teaching or in practice. If you have a designated healer, they may join in on lessons with my apprentice."

He looked down at the boy, and the back up at Arrluk.

"You have children here," he noted, watching the other man carefully. "Perhaps, during his free time, you might allow young Delos to seek them out? He's not had much chance to meet with others near his age."