She hesitates. “I believe this thing, this signal or whatever it is, it’s calling out to him. Perhaps the only way for him to get better is to answer the call.” “You mean to go to the Faraswa Desert.” She nods. “He suggested going there on his own to investigate, but Niko, I can’t allow it. A teenage Faraswa boy crossing the wilds of Umadiland on his own? He won’t make it. But I don’t know what else to do.” In that moment, a crossroads appears before Niko, a fork in his path that demands he make a choice. He was once offered such a choice not too long ago, and in that instance the path he
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