"Shanta, son of Ardahd, receive the Nectar of Ninani, as your sister before you and your sister after you." Shanta stepped forward, his whole body trembling. He gulped down the Nectar without a second thought. He didn't care for its taste. It tasted good, but that's all that mattered. Then, as if by magic, an arctic fox appeared in front of him. The graceful but cute animal looked at him quizzically. He invited it over. He walked to Shanta and they touched, hand to paw. The tingling Shanta hadn't known he'd been feeling stopped. He turned to his family and his village. One little girl stared, amazed. He thought her name might be Abeke, but why should he care? Thinking of names, he'd need a name for his spirit animal. 

 "Where's my spoon?" asked an elder member of the village. The fox sniffed the ground and was immediately able to track down the spoon. 

 "You're a good tracker" he told his new friend. The fox gave a nod then returned the spoon to the man. Tracker. That's what i'll call him! 

"Erm, excuse me Mr Greencloak. When's the next boat to Greenhaven?" he said. 

 "Tomorrow" said the Greencloak with a smile. He winked at his older sister, who was livid at Tracker's appearance, then turned and ran to the docks, stopping shortly to get stuff from his house.

Shanta watched the foreign girl sitting next to him. Where could she be from? He knew only two things about her. One, she was beautiful, and two, she had the same spirit animal as him. A Greencloak came over to him. 

 "You two for the boat to Greenhaven?" she asked. 

"I'm Maddy" 

 "I'm Cashi" said the girl as she gathered her things. 

 "And I'm Shanta, first boy to summon a spirit animal in Erdas since the local Greencloak." Maddy looked at him disapprovingly. "Ok, well maybe just in Nilo." Cashi kicked him. "My village." They both stared at him. "My family" he said finally. Cashi smiled. 

"Thought so" said Maddy, shaking her head. "Snowfall!" she called and a great arctic dog bounded out of the bushes and became a tattoo on her arm. She pulled down her sleeve. "Welcome to the Greencloaks. Your boat is this way" she said, leading them to the biggest of the boats. Several Greencloaks were there, as well as the sailors. Cashi looked at them, a mixture of hatred and love in her eyes. 

 "So these are the people who allowed my father to become ill" she muttered. Shanta elbowed her to get her to repeat it "None of your business, nosy" she snapped.