EXCOLO

"I know," I agree quietly. "It is an enormous task. We will have to get more people to help us. Chester will help, of course. And perhaps Nu, and Glass, and others who have strong power. As for getting her essence into people…" The wheels turn in my mind, spinning out dozens of ideas that I reject even before I speak them. What can we do? What do we share? How can Nanshe reach everyone in Excolo? I lean forward to take another sip of coffee as I think. "Well," I begin again. "She is already in the land, and that connects her to the people who live here - they eat what grows on the land, and they drink the water. Perhaps we could intensify that somehow? Put more of her in the water, so that her essence goes into everyone."