Dreams are Easy

Sometimes, Nella thought, dreams are easy. She had known Shola all her life, and she knew Dran too. She knew what Shola wanted, and she knew that Dran was interested too. She would speak to Tallen, the village elder and the wise woman, Drona, and tell them what she had learnt. Within the year, probably after the harvest Dran and Shola would be married.

Nella had sat by the side of the old village dreamspeaker, Hona, for all the years of her apprenticeship, learning the art of telling the peop...