Part VI: Tenere who was N'Djamena

Some say that the island of Veidan Shra Lei lies on the Shari river, yet only appears at certain moments in dawn or twilight swimming in cast off fog. The truth is that Veidan Shra Lei lies beyond terrestrial boundaries where not even the scholars of Trechnt are sure to graph it. It was on this island that Tenere walked barefoot in the bamboo grove near the nape of the beach wishing that she had brought her sari to still the wind's bite against her skin.

Tenere who was once the goddess of love N'Djamena who by flirting with demon lords and dragon kings became Tenere the goddess of lust after loosing her station. The houri for gods and demons alike who whispered to the daughters of Red Tide obscenities. She bent the bamboo slightly to open her path while crushing white sand between her toes moving toward the direction of the water.

None knew the exact moment when she abdicated her station yet her servitude under the P'lonian House of Cnavel is a story of sullen tragedy. At the end of those stories she exiled herself to the isle of Veidan Shra Lei.

In those epics there was one man who stood with her. He stood with her before lust and after love. And she stood with him through perilous times. Because a goddess of love is also a goddess of passion thus a goddess of war and a fearsome opponent on the battlefield. With this man she wielded her urumi against the demon spawn of N'gLishib, sought for the hidden manna in the bodies of the dead at the field of Nishen.

Night ospreys dipped fish out of the ocean piercing the night air. Besides that, the bamboo grove was still, smelling of green bamboo shoots. It was at times like that Tenere thought about Jhlem and that last glance they shared in the southern rain forest.