The Blue Stone ...... Part 2

Elan went back to the same place the next night and many nights after that.  He had been welcomed back to camp when he brought the basket of food and had been told how good it was so something the visitors had done was working.  Even his uncle had not been angry toward him.
The visitors taught him many things.  They taught him how the blue stone could be used to communicate with the spirit world.   They taught him how to use herbs to heal.  They gave him information about his people and about the past and the future.  They told him they would have to go back where they came from soon.
“Why do you have to go back?  I want you to stay and teach me more.”
“You are a great student, Elan.  That is why we chose you to teach you these things.  But there will come a time when you will be the teacher.  You will become a leader of your people and you will train another who will take your place.  When the time comes you will tell the one who takes your place about the blue stone and when they take over for you, you must give them the stone.  Some time in the future we will return and the stone will guide us.”
Elan became a very well respected healer and spiritual leader among the people and he was known by many.  He trained many and taught many but one young woman became the student that he knew would take over for him.
When Elan knew it was his time to die he asked her to accompany him to a cave high on the mountain.  He readied himself to move to the spirit world and when he was ready he told her he had one more story to tell her and he took the pouch from around his neck.  He showed her the blue stone and told her of its power.  He put the stone back in the pouch and put it around her neck. 
“My child, treat the stone well and it will treat you well as it has me.  I am old and have lived a long time.  It is my time go back to the spirit world where I came from.   Use your power and your abilities to help the people.  Train one to take your place and pass on the stone to them when the time comes.  Someday the ones who gave me the stone will return and they have said that it is the stone that will guide them back from the stars from which they came.”