"I was wondering when you'd show up." I had been riding on my horse for a couple hours, passed a lot of traffic going back to Rosetia, didn't see a lot going in the direction I was going in, but it wasn't like I was heading to a trade destination (cults don't have the best trade opportunities, unless you count being alive and then being dead as a commodity).
"I've been busy, its not easy being kicked out of a country as I'm sure you know all too well Trezlan." Toneron was on a horse of his own, probably to keep pace with me though I doubted he needed it.
"Thanks to you."
"Well you're welcome. Ronerawth was strangling you anyway, you didn't realize it, but you had gotten soft, you need excitement." I rolled my eyes, but I don't think he noticed it.
"So you know anything of Shamanar?" I figured whatever Toneron was he might know if this god I'd never heard of.
"Nope not a thing, and I'd been racking my brain ever since Nidget had told me about his problem."
"How long did it take you?"
"About three minutes." To stop laughing at Nidget being blue is the subtext you are probably missing out on here.
"Do you think getting the book back and take the curse off?" We passed a young couple going in the other direction they had a small child who had a hacking cough that was loud enough for me to wince. Toneron looked a little too long for my taste at the family, I noted that maybe he was a carrier of disease.
"Couldn't hurt, I mean its the most likely reason Nidget got cursed, now whether putting it back takes the curse off? I don't know, could just be a curse for disturbing the book, which is why the Cult paid him do it instead of doing it themselves. A bit sad they didn't just sacrifice one of their members though, I tell you cults today no sense of self sacrifice." He chuckled a bit at the end there, I kind of got he was saying they used to kill cult members for belief, but again, its kind of creepy.
"Still strange I don't know who Shamanar is."
"Gods have a lot of names Trezlan." He smiled again, maybe he's a god too? A god of disease? MAYBE?
"This has been enlightening as usual Toneron."
"You know Trezlan I'd be more enlightening if you knew more, since I am a figment of your imagination." I stopped dead, was I that crazy? Had I made up Toneron?
"That's not possible." I was saying it out loud if only to make it seem less possible, if that makes any sense.
"You're right its not, and if I was an asshole I would have just dissappeared after I had said it, but you should have seen your face!" I was relieved, if only partially worried, maybe my crazy was just taking a moment to make me think Toneron was real? I'm still not a hundred percent convinced.
"At least my life isn't boring." And it continues not to be boring, although I could do with less possible hallucination/god/disease vectors like Toneron not showing up. It was pleasant he rode with me all the way to the cultists, I think out of some kind of morbid curiosity, to tell you the truth that's also why I was there. I still wanted to know what kind of God was Shamanar!
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