[@Zendrelax][@Leslie Hall]
[i]Collaborative post between this silly goy and Leslie.[/i]
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Yel'Shadar wasn't really one for flights of fancy, so when Kwelek came back to the tribe with a caged Kwenda in tow one day, he took the side of the more reasonable party who believed that the boy never actually caught the animal by trial of endurance, but rather poisoned it, tricked it, or acquired it by otherwise crooked, snakelike means. He'd been quiet about the incident and generally polite towards the younger boy, but now he's gotten something that [i]might[/i] be from [i]before[/i] The Silence. Now, Yel wasn't an ass - his father had explicitly told him not to be one, but if his gesture - cocking his head back, smirking sardonically and snorting - wasn't insulting, then the sun rose in the night and the rain fell from the ground and girls lost their maidenhood at age five.

He was quick to regain a serious countenance, however. "Before the Silence? Oh, [i]amazing[/i]. Here, let me take a look at that."

Not surprisingly, Kwelek did hand him the object. Yel secured his bow and began examining the thing: hundreds of dirty sheets of something white, bound together in a tough spine and covered by a sort of hide. All over the sheets were a series of constantly appearing black patterns - symbols, something like the sigils in tattoos or hunt paints. The hunter raised his brow, held the object casually in the air, and said to Kuparr pointedly, "I don't know what it is, but it doesn't seem very useful. Think the Elders might want this thing?"

Yel expected Kuparr to say something along the lines of 'yes, and you should give it to me immediately so I can take it to the old men who would then burn the thing,' and immediately try to wrest the object from his grip. So he prepared against this.