Gifted Ones

The adventures continue. Dalil realizes his vocation as a story teller, andalso as a wanderer who collects stories before they vanish in the greatdestruction. He gains a worthy mate as he gains his vocation. Alimah thesinger of songs and dancer studying in Egypt, meets a man of the far north atthat school. Danger and violence pursue them both; they fl ee and have manyadventures until he goes back to his home land. She stays and bears theirchild and mates with Kaliq, as she meant to do. Nahid, the jeweler, goes tothe far mountains of Badakhshan for lapis, returns and fi nds that the Kinare leaving Mesopotamia for a remote mountain valley near the Great GreenSea. He, driven by his dreams, must go to Amarna where Th utmose madehis great art. He does so and acquires the mysterious Rabiah as his mate. Fleeing Egypt, as so many have, they return to the Kin in their mountainvalley in the hills of Lebanon.