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body over a matter of weeks. The human's spirit slowly dies and the wendigo's spirit takes full control of the body before physically transforming into a wendigo. You have been safe so far but now that you are reaching the end of your childhood and becoming an adult your spirit becomes more stable in the spirit world. This makes you easy prey for the wendigo."
    "How can we stop them getting us?" asked a girl, her face now full of the fear which Mathilde suspected would creep into most of the class before bedtime.
    "We wear moonstones" said Mathilde bringing out her pendant from under her top to show the class the rainbow infused white stone. "You may have noticed your parents or Carers wearing them. Many people throughout history believe that moonstones were made when the moon and stars shone on the ocean and turned the light into stones.
    Moonstones help us to trust in our own intuition, listen to our dreams and take the best road, not necessarily the easiest. They help us to commune with the spirit world in our dreams and on vision quests and most importantly help us to create a barrier when we are in the dream or spirit world.
    The barrier doesn’t keep the wendigo away forever but it temporarily cloaks our spirit to make us harder to find in the dream plains. For those of you who decide to learn more about vision quests and dream talks, the moonstone will help you to tap into your psychic self. As you know there are those among us who are practiced in this area and use dreams as a way to commune with the other settlements around the world.
    You are growing older now and need to know how to protect yourself from the wendigo. You will all be given a moonstone at the end of today's lessons. Wear it always."
    The class stared in wonder at the rainbow moonstone which hung around Mathilde's neck. It glinted in the light filtering through the window and the blues and greens shone for a second.
    "What’s that other one?" asked a brown haired boy as he pointed at the orange stone hanging beside the moonstone.
    "That is called amber. If you become a Protector you will be given amber to wear. You will wear it on a pendant around your neck, your chainmail vest will be studded with it and it will be on the tip of your weapon."
    "What does it do?" the boy asked, eyes alight with mysteries as yet unknown
    "Moonstone protects us from the wendigo in the spirit world. Amber protects us from the physical form of the wendigo. It was once found in copious amounts but is now rarer than moonstone and so is only worn by those who come into contact with the wendigo. Amber is almost the exact opposite of moonstones. Amber is full of heat and energy and is believed to have been formed when chunks of the sun fell into the ocean. It was believed to hold the souls of many tigers and the power of many suns. It is a stone of courage that protects us against fear and danger. The wendigo can only live in the cold for a very good reason. Their heart is made from ice and ice runs through their veins. The quickest and easiest way to kill a wendigo is to melt their heart. Amber does this just as quickly as fire and the wendigo know this. They try to avoid touching it. This is the reason that Protectors wear amber and tip and decorate our weapons with it. "
    Mathilde returned her double pendant to its place under her top and the stones clicked reassuringly against each other as she did.
    "You said there were two ways that wendigo were made. What’s the other?" asked the eager boy. Mathilde paused for a second. She knew that this was the point which usually caused the nightmares.
    "The second way in which wendigo are made is also the way in which they first came to be in Europe. To understand it you need to understand what life was like when the White took hold. This happened years before I was born but I’ve heard the tales from a very young age. It seems like I have known them since birth.
    When the White first came there were people living all over