Understanding the Shadow: The Shiekah Way
by Megan O'Shea
Summary
"…I started my prayers to the Gods, thinking that I was soon to meet them. I couldn’t feel anything anymore, and I swore that on the wind…I heard voices from the afterlife. I damned the accounts and curiosity that had led me to this icy grave… Then…as I lay there, I felt someone reach out and speak to me in a tongue that I had never in all my time heard before. I looked up, and there, in the moonlight, I saw a man, peering down at me with eyes the color of fresh blood. My screams unsettled him, and he said something once more in that odd language…before offering me a drink from a strange canteen he kept on his person…I had found what I was seeking in this stranger."
