Chapter 53

“She comes back here when she needs to sleep,” the first woman laughed. “I don’t think she sleeps at all when she’s away. She’ll come back and sleep for a couple days and then, off she’ll go again.”

“Good Goddess,” Rhya exclaimed, “then how did you all get to know her?”

“She’ll also come back once a moontide to the Sweat Lodge if she doesn’t forget what day it is.” Everyone laughed.

“Is she Jayanta’s sister?” Rhea asked.

“I think Kai is about five or six years older,” the first woman answered.

“I like Jayanta, but I don’t feel she has healing powers,” Rhya said.

They all nodded in agreement.

“Jayanta has other powers, I think,” someone said. “She’s a Patternista. Have you seen her run? She’s faster and more graceful than anyone I’ve known.”

“Her totem is the deer and she moves like one.”

“My totem’s the turtle. I can never keep up.” Rhya laughed.

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