Aiden's head was so full of questions and answers he was relieved when Gunesh was called away. He needed some time to think, to put what he had been told in some kind of order. But when Ashala offered to guide him back to his room, he turned her down.
"I'd like a tour, if you don't mind," he said. Despite the ordeal he had been through, Aiden felt stronger for the food and water. Whatever treatment they administered, it was doing wonders for his recovery. His terrible waking state only a few hours before was already a distant memory.
"What did you people do to me? The treatment, I mean?"
She seemed to have gotten over some of her disappointment. "A natural mineral mixed with water from the well," she said. "The body is soaked in it during time of illness or when near death. If the soul
