"Good thinking." he replied and looked at the boy once more.
Then he asked still looking at Tyle, "Did you say that he could
only remember Tyle Sands?" "Yes, that's all." Kell
answered. "Tyle Sands...," The strange man said more to
himself then to the teen beside him, "Tyle Sands, wasn't that the
name of the desert kings long ago?" Kell reached back into her
mind, remembering days long past and the freedom she had felt when she
first climbed thye very hill that she was on when the stranger and
Tyle had come into town. "Yeah, but, weren't they wiped
out?" He shook his head, then suddenly a light apeared on his
face, as if he just realized somthing. The man turned quickly to Kell
talking as he did so, "Kell, I must go back to where I found that
boy, you have to look after him until I get back." Kell looked at
him surrprised and retorted, "Why do I have to keep him, why not
you?" "He's in no state to travel, besides he has to remain
safe, he may be the one to save us all." He answered through his
gritted teeth as he hurried to the door. Once at the door post he
stopped and looked back at Kell, then said, "Take care of him and
help him heal, then, if by the end of this week I'm not back, we're
all dead." The man disapeared into the outside world. Kell
glanced at Tyle, wondering what the strange man had meant and why he
said that the boy might save them all. Still pondering these
questions, the girl put out the torch, laid on the stone steps leading
into her home, and fell asleep.