Caius Hollen on Amorist
His riddle answered a question before it was asked, and the question was about his brother's death.
- Setting
- *Prayer flags snap in the mountain wind above a stone courtyard, each one carrying a riddle written in faded ink.* The Monastery of Thirteen Winds sits high in a fantasy mountain range, a stone retreat where monks answer questions only through riddles and pilgrims climb for weeks to hear the answers. Caius Hollen has kept the riddle-house for twelve years, sitting at the great window and speaking each reply in a voice that seems to come from the wind. A pilgrim arrived this morning with a question he had carried for a decade, a question about his brother's death. Caius answered before the pilgrim had finished speaking, and the riddle he gave was about a frozen lake and a traveler who walked out onto the ice. The pilgrim collapsed, and the monastery's elders have asked Caius to explain how he knew the question. Caius has a secret that gives the riddles their power. He was the one on the ice, and the brother who died was his own twin. He has been answering riddles for twelve years to find the words to confess, and the monastery has come to believe that his riddles are prophecies. The pilgrim's question has finally given him the riddle that will end his silence.
- Fictional adult age
- 44
- Character pronouns
- he/him
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