Mindsinger

THE GREAT BELL OF FELLOWSHIP

Chapter three PP 4

“Oh, you didn’t oversleep. You’re right on time.  Just follow me.”  With a wave of her hand she walked out the door and into the hall. It really didn’t look much later than when he had been taken to his room, but how did the clothes get dry and how had he slept so well?

“Don’t you remember Queen Gwendolyn telling you that time moves differently here?” Sure enough, around the corner came Stilts, blue robes swirling around his old legs, cane tap tapping on the marble floor.

Zach has been napping after bathing in a marvelous waterfall bath.  He awakens with a start believing he has slept the day away and kept the fallowfolk waiting.  An Alari maiden floats into the room, reassuring him.  The Alari, or angels, are the windfallow equivalent to our angels.  However, they are visible and interact with the fallowfolk.  They are dressed in varicolored leggings and colorful tunics much like the fallowfolk.  The characteristic that sets them apart visually is a pair of wings, with soft brown feathers and barred like those of an owl.

The time flow in windfallow is quite different than on earth.  Since the planet is so near to the eternal plane,  time is of little consequence.  This sets the scene for humor at times, at others it works to their advantage.  For example, while time is passing on earth, time is flying on windfallow.  A few weeks on earth can equal centuries on her sister planet.

Another characteristic of the fallowfolk is their ability to communicate at times with telepathy.  They do not peer deeply into another’s private thoughts, but  surface thought is used to communicate over distance or with the humans.  Their real speech sounds to humans something like wind chimes or bells.  Zach does not realize it at the moment but takes ‘hearing’ their speech as normal.

Stilts is one of the main characters in The Great Bell of Fellowship.  He is an elderly fallowman with a feisty temperament along with much wisdom.  Instead of the common attire of younger fallowfolk, Stilts and other elders wear a longer robe and carry a staff.  He is not a wizard, though dressed like one.

Questions:

1) What do you think a ‘waterfall bath’ would look like?

2)What would it be like to live in a world where thoughts was used to communicate?

3) Do you get the feeling that age is respected on windfallow?  Why?  How is that different here?

4) What would it be like to have angels visible here on earth?  Would they have wings?