HIS NAME WAS SZAMBELAN and at first he’d had no memory of who he’d been before the Flashback—only that he had walked the earth for approximately thirty-five years before the winds and the storms and the crackling, killing bolts, which had changed the world forever.
“I was reborn that day,” he said almost casually as he began stripping away his accouterments in the silk-draped rear of the tent, which was palatial in comparison to the one she had shared with Sammy the night before. “Oh, I remembered the world and its earthly machinations; its geography and its politics, its toil and petty motivations. What I could not remember was anything of myself—the face of my mother, the face of my father ...”
Sheila watched as he pulled the dark tunic over his head and dropped it to the floor, reveal
