Chapter 6: Talim, the priestess

Talim belonged to a tribe in Southeast Asia, which worshipped the wind as a deity.

The main feature of this tribe were its priestesses, who were able to purify evil.

Talim was one of them. In fact, she was the youngest one, at the age of 16.

As usual in our story, the tribe had a peaceful existence until a sudden and horrible happening put an end to it.

On this occasion, it was a seaquake which bursted in the shore where the tribe was settled. One of the priestesses had foreseen it a while before it arrived, so the tribe tried to organizedly leave the shore. Those under 18 years old were the first to be evacuated, and Talim was ordered to lead them because she was the oldest among them. But before any other person in the tribe managed to run away, the seaquake broke.

So the only survivors of the natural disaster were the children, and Talim in charge of them.

They sheltered in a watermill which was built over a mighty river.

As time went by, they managed to recover their peaceful lives. Talim was very good acting as everyone's mother, because she was quite mature for her age.

But after all, to err is human, and one day Talim made a mistake.

One of the kids moved too far away from the mill.

When Talim realized, she went after him very worried. When she found him, he was behaving in a very strange way, and he had a mysterious glare on his eyes. At first, she didn't place importance on it, but she was wrong.

That night, the boy attacked one of the other kids without any provocation.

Talim managed to move them apart, but she realized that the boy wasn't the same anymore.

She didn't know yet, but that boy had the Evil Seed inside him.

Fortunately, Talim's skills as a priestess were enough to heal the boy and bring him back to normality. But she was still worried. That thing had only happened to a kid, but it would have been much worse if it had happened to several of them or even to herself.

Talim knew something was wrong in the outside world. She wanted to go out and find the source of that evil energy, but at the moment, she had to take care of the kids.

She wanted to purify all that energy. But she couldn't. Not yet.