Again, Joel seemed more like the tiger I saw him become when I was a boy in Kalmazar than the hummingbird he looked like now. The wildness of the tiger was in the Being even though Joel was mostly gentleness and playfulness. “There are many ways for things to be, and why they are what they are is also a mystery. You could say the Jungle should never have existed or that the first King should never have been. But then, everything would be different, including the good that has happened since the Harmony was broken. When I lived in the Jungle, I was limited by Joely’s body. I lived a true being of Kalmazar, just like you did. I started over, having thebasic knowledge anyone of the Jungle grows into. And Joely is even still a part of me.”

Joel looked at the Leader. “All...

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