Legend of Tyoga Weathersby

Author:H. L. Grandin
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Historical, Fiction
ISBN: 9780985726720
Publisher: Acorn Book Services
Published: 2012-07-15T18:42:28+00:00

Chapter 27 A Reckoning

The entire village spent the next several days helping Sunlei’s family prepare for her departure. They moved through the alleys of Tuckareegee as if in a trance. Silence filled the usually vibrant

town with an eery pall that would not abate. Gifts flooded the lodge of Nine Moons and True Moon while families gathered to say their private goodbyes to Sunlei. Tes Qua stayed with Sunlei and his parents while they were receiving visitors, acknowledging their gifts, and embracing well wishers in long painful partings filled with tears.

To make the parting all the more difficult, Seven Arrows and a band of Shawnee braves arrived three days ahead of schedule and camped only about a half-mile to the south of the Cherokee village. It was a calculated taunt designed to provoke the grieving citizens of Tuckareegee.

Since announcing his impending departure at the meeting in the council lodge, Tyoga had made himself scarce. His rebuke at not being encouraged to stay among the People after Sunlei’s departure was a painful reminder that he was indeed a brother to the Ani-Unwiya, but not a son. Although he had lived among the People all of his life and was accepted as a member of the tribe, no Cherokee blood ran through his veins. His color, build, and cultural heritage were barriers too conspicuous to be erased by ceremony or time. He had made camp on an overlook from which he could see Sunlei’s lodge. The People could see his campfire burning brightly in the night sky.

Alone in the wilderness, with Wahaya by his side, he thought of the journey that had brought him to this place and time.

He recalled that day with his papa so long ago when he stood on Carter’s Rock on a chilly summer morn and he saw the beams of sunlight that exploded from the peaks to the east to fuse with his soul and lift him from the confines of time and place.

The wonder of suddenly knowing.

That precious moment released him from the burden of questioning why and filled him with the intuitive truth that the answer made no difference at all. The knowing freed him from the imprisonment of doubt, uncertainty, and fear. The liberating wisdom permitted unfettered action and uncompromised certainty.

Why have I been chosen to receive the promise?

Events in his life had unfolded so that the distinction between gift and curse had been more than marginally blurred.

What sense does it make for my journey to unfold so that the woman I love should be taken away from me by an adversary whose life has inexplicably intersected with mine in such devastating ways?

His faint smile revealed the awareness that he had caught himself asking “why?” He chuckled and whispered out loud, “The answer makes no difference at all.”

He remembered the horrific night on the escarpment when he very nearly died saving the life of his brother Tes Qua Ta Wa. He shivered when he looked upon the mighty beast lying so docilely at his side and recalled the moment that the gift was given to him on that fateful night.

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