Enlan was angry and hurt that Anu stayed away for six years. We find out why.
Chapter 3: New Anu
In Enanika:
Six years ago, after the three-day Sirius alignment, Anu had been invited by Nadhir to begin storyteller training.
Earth was still vivid inside her. Milkwood, the winter solstice dark, the sound of Fat Cow Creek below the falls, and Enlan’s torchlight falling across the path ahead of her as he said, “Goodbye, my love.”
She felt the pull of it clearly. She felt, just as clearly, what Nadhir was offering. She held them both, and then she turned towards Enanika, and the training began.
Contact callers open the bridge between worlds. They are the first point of call. They help worlds attune to frequencies not yet known to them. It is essential work, foundational work, the kind of work that has to happen before anything else can.
Storytellers come after. Their work is different. Whereas contact callers connect worlds, storytellers venture into their interior, into the dreams they dream about themselves, into the patterns they return to again and again without knowing why. Storytellers learn to feel worlds from the inside. They know that stories are not simply entertainment, nor history, nor even mythology, though they wear those forms.
