Shao-lin

The neighbour boy who always showed up when something was happening

On grandmother's porch in Dawn's Blossom, four years old, tunic pulled over his head in the rain.

The first body she ever saw protected by orbiting stones. He giggled. The lesson stuck.

•Pandaren cub, four years old, neighbour to grandmother in Dawn's Blossom
•Always showed up when something was happening
•Wore a small coat of seven river pebbles that grandmother lifted around his shoulders
•Walked into the porch post and the pebbles absorbed it
•The reason Mei Lin still orbits stones the same way around a tank

The Morning Grandmother Taught Three Things

The totem humming on the balcony reminds her of a rainy porch, a borrowed fishing spear, and three lessons she has not used in years.

Holy Water

A paladin in the city where a paladin fell. She pulled him back four times. They called it running together.