The Water Screams in Protest

East Wind

One day, on a cloudy day in August, he found himself by the river again though. How he got there is not shown. Hacombe was there though, and Leonard was overjoyed to see him again and embraced him. He saw the River Maiden with her head out of the water, looking deeply, longingly at him, smiling a bit sadly.

She let him know, without speaking, that one of the things she is a spirit of is desiring for positive change. Desiring for it with all of her being, incredibly, intensely, needing it, longing for it, supporting it wholeheartedly. She tried her best to make change happen. But she wasn't the spirit of making change happen directly, she wasn't directly the spirit of change happening. So she couldn't always make change happen. Change happening was made even more impossible by her father, the spirit of keeping things the same, and his cronies. But Leonard was what could perhaps change that.

Leonard had the spirit of change happening, of situations improving, inside of him. That might  be why he was the first escaped slave ever. Wanting change, panging for change and hoping for change is what powers change and drives change into happening. But it's not all-powerful. Sometimes, only sometimes, there's a lot if can't do. Leonard's spirit though was the actual phenomenon of change occurring, which of course, needs her spritit, the spritit of wanting change. Together they could be incredibly powerful.

She gave Leonard a bag of supplies and money. She said that food was magical and was extra nourishing and healthy. There was an extent to which the food and money in the bag could replace itself once take out, but this couldn't happen an infinite amount of times. It was she best she could do. She told Leonard to meet Thomas, who had been changing his own life a lot lately, in a tent near the town by the river and evergreen forest. She gave him a pale stone from the river and told him to hold onto it, as it would prevent her father or his cronies or even the estate owners form finding him or recognizing him.

Then the group would work on freeing as many slaves as they could together.

Leonard took Hacombe and the magic supply bag and walked into the river. The currents were soft and cool and deep as the River Maiden transported them to Thomas's tent.