“My name is Eychep, and I claim no title. Some here will call me seyyah, and perhaps that is accurate. It would be best, Vosa, if we do not spend long on courtesy. It gives me great anxiety to leave my son in the hands of maids when so many in this settlement wish us gone.”
Eychep is a wandering scholar who has settled on Phodai and become one of its potential leaders.
Not much is known about her past. It is said she is a former slave of someone who taught her many things. If she is the Eychep Nazanin told Pachei about, she is a writer of philosophical texts, one of the New Humanists, or something close to them. Koyan thinking without the psionics, she said.