Meet the Shaman!

I think you can tell Harsho had fun with this page! You only have to look at the wonderful shapes in that swirling maelstrom inside the stone circle. So different from anything I'd asked of him previously!

The Shaman himself is key to several strands of this story and, if there was any character I was concerned might not seem "real", it was him.

I've given extra thought to the things he says and the way he says them and - as you can probably tell from Stan's thoughts on this page - I struggled for some time with how the other characters might address a man with no known name!

"To his face, I always called him Jim," reflects Stan. "I can't remember why." No, but I can!

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