"Heard that the helmet of Jin paid you a visit."

Lailah said to him. She was standing before him. He was seated on a wooden bench planted under one of the boabab trees along the route.

One thing was making meaning of how she knew that he was plying that route, another was how she knew about the helmet.

After the trauma of the arrival of the helmet, he had gone to ask around the market square for the sorcerer in the town, but he was told that the man ceased to function.

He was returning home to decide where to keep the helmet when he had been called upon...