“After a while,” Rod continued, “we decided to send messengers to the villagers nearby. We thought that with all you had taught us, and what we had taught the villagers of Rise, we should continue to share. So the messengers we sent were told to teach as much as they could, including the making and [...]
As the sun set, Rod came back to the house, knocked on the door, and invited Ham and his companions to join him in the center of the village. The first things that Ham noticed as he left the house was the light. There was lamps on posts at intervals around the village. Instead of [...]
Image via Wikipedia This continued in village after village. “Welcome back, Lightbringer!” Until Ham and his companions came to a village named Rise. As always, they went to the center of the village to sit on the logs by the well. But there were no logs. Instead, there were benches and small tables. And the [...]
It must have been the fourth or fifth village they came to on their way back. Ham and his companions entered the village and headed for the center, as they always did, to sit by the well and relax. As they sat, one of Ham’s former traveling companions, Jeff, came toward him and said “Welcome [...]
Setting out the next morning, Ham decided to retrace his steps so that he could see the Huddlers he had known and traveled with. And, admittedly, with the faint hope that he’d find Martin somewhere along the way. As they got back to their last village, Ford, where he’d met Fred. Things seemed pretty much [...]
A day came when Ham realized it had been a long time and he had not found one hint, one whisper, one clue about the Lightbringer. He felt sad and disappointed and frustrated. He had traveled farther and wider than anyone he’d ever heard of, he still had his dreams and his vision, and he [...]
One morning, waking in his sleeping roll with his current group of fellow travelers, Ham looked around and realized that Martin was gone. He asked the others, but none had seen or heard a thing. Ham went to where Martin had been sleeping, and found a small stone with a small image carved into its [...]
