Chapter 56: Troubling Teens
It had been a couple of days since Adrian’s arrival at Banur’s doorstep. In those days, he learned a lot about the tribe. Things that weren’t mentioned in the books he read about them.
In other words, he got to experience the truth that the church had hidden from everyone. But the most baffling thing he discovered about the tribe was their communal nature.
Apart from the area accessible only to the Chieftain and the council, the rest of the space was free for everyone. The concept of owning things didn’t exist for them. Obviously, there were a few exceptions, such as weapons and slaves.
But besides those things, everything was available to the others, from food to lodgings. One could eat the food made by someone else or sleep inside anyone’s tent.
If it weren’t for the unwilling slaves and the skulls handing at random places, it would have been a great vacation spot for Nexarians.
Apart from the things he had learned, A’Mila and Adrian had several detailed talks about Vesper, as they now lived together.
The first thing Adrian asked A’Mila was how Vesper had managed to get back to Nexaria before, hoping there might be a way for him to go back and help her... if it wasn’t too late already.
A’Mila shook her head and explained that they disguised Vesper as a slave among the tribes who ran away from them. Eventually, she was "rescued" by Nexarian soldiers who used to be stationed nearby.
She added that the tribe didn’t know how to create cracks in the veil as the Nexarians did. Also, they had already wrecked the Nexarian camps around their settlement, so there was no way for Adrian to return, at least as far as they were aware.