Chapter 14

“With our thoughts we make the world.”

-Buddha

They slowed to a walk as the hot winds of day came to meet them. The scene around them emerged once again from the darkness of night, like the tide of a dark sea rolling out to reveal a golden shore, and this time the coming day unveiled something miraculous. During the night, the Mountains had leapt forwards. They now had form. Dips and clefts marred their surface, as did the patchy green cladding of foliage. A host of rifts and seams leapt out. There was even the odd twinkle of light, like sunlight reflecting against water.

Nathaniel stopped and breathed in long and deep through his nostrils, and he could almost smell the cool air of the Mountains...

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