Epilogue

After...

Sani sat in the alcove alone. He sat for a long time beside the fire, waiting. Waiting for that feeling that would call him out into the world again to fight, to help, to be where he was needed.

He sat, every so often chanting snatches of a song. His time had been long, and it would be still longer. Luckily, he usually found things to do. He'd been fairly mischievous in life and that hadn't changed in death. It was just a matter of finding what he would do next.

Then, he smiled.

There was a mind searching. It was a familiar mind.

He closed his eyes and concentrated on that mind. It took him far beyond the boundaries of the Navajo Nation. It took him to the outside world, far from what he knew.

It took him to a small apartment in a noisy city.

A man slept.

A man dreamed. He dreamed familiar dreams.

There was more to him than met the eye.

Sani watched him for a long time and then leaned down and whispered...not into his ears, but directly to his mind.

"There is more to the tale I told you. There is always more to learn. If you will hear, you will know the story. Listen and I will tell you of Changing Woman and her sons the Monster Slayers..."

The man twitched a few times, but then, he lay quiet, seeing the story that he was being told. It was easier than it had been the first time. After telling another part of the story, he withdrew to his space with a smile on his face.

Sani's smile widened and he looked up at the sky. Was this necessary, this sharing, this change? No. Not at all, but the mind was open and willing to learn. He would learn and know more.

Sani laughed. There was no escaping what had begun.

...and even if there was, where was the fun in that?

FINIS!