The group is moving away from their camp back towards Nodden-Torr ahead. Alexis falls into step beside Ca’armine.
“Something came out of my studies this past fortnight. A name I didn’t recognize.” He glances over. “The Inner Watch. Some kind of sect inside the order.” He watches Ca’armine’s face. “Have you heard of it?”
Ca’armine puts his hand on his chin, to signal to his team leader that he’s heard, and is considering.
At length he shakes his head. “Inner… Watch? You know, it sounds familiar, it does. I have associations in my mind, with those words. Like I heard it in a sermon or something like that, like it’s a call to the individual to maintain his connection to the good of the whole. From Raidensblud training.”
He paces a minute, then turns out his hands toward Alexis. “Nothing. I don’t have a memory to go with those thoughts. I’m sorry. I wasn’t much more than an acolyte when I took off, you know, I certainly had not been knowingly indoctrinated into the mysteries.”
Alexis nods slowly.
“What I pulled from the warren was thin. Just the name and the sense that it was old.” He glances at Ca’armine. “Older than the current order’s shape.”
“A sermon though. That’s something.”
Rask notices Ca’armine and Alexis talking and quietly repeats “the Inner Watch” as if to help him remember the phrase.