The King Journals consist of eleven leather-bound volumes. As I have noted previously, some entries are more detailed than others. King’s account of the first time he met Winona is two paragraphs long. His summary of the first rendezvous he attended ran six paragraphs. The tale you are about to read was derived from journal entries spanning nine full pages, and was remarkable not only for its length but for the effect the outcome had on Nate King.
As usual, dramatic license has been taken with the use of sign language. To replicate it throughout the story in its pure, concise form would result in a certain deceptive simplicity. For instance, to ask “Where are you going?” in sign, it would translate into “Question. You going?”
“What is your name?” becomes “Question. You called?”
“Where do you live?” is “Question. Where you sit?”
You see the pattern, and I feel it does not do sign justice. For the truth is, someone highly versed in sign could achieve a degree of eloquence no literal translation can match.
Now here, for your consideration, is the story of the last of the “Great Ones.”