A Language of Restraint

The Keeper’s first storytelling session was not a grand oration, but a quiet gathering. He spoke of the silent sacrifices of the past, of the discipline and resolve that were once the bedrock of their society. The younger generation, accustomed to the open emotionality of the ‘first circles,’ listened with a mixture of curiosity and skepticism. It was a language they did not fully understand, a history they had never been taught.