As the five climbed into the arms of the mountainside, they could see peaks towering far above them reaching towards the heavens. In the distance round stone huts perched precariously on high ledges, adorning the mountain peaks. Occasionally Tiders and Crons appeared far off, winding their way through the crests. Rams bounded past them on their way to the heights and a pool of water trickled by on its way to waterfall back to the shallows.

            “I don’t understand,” Alaireia told Legone as she climbed beside him, “why you would leave a place such as this for the other side of the Sea.”

            “No, you wouldn’t understand,” Legone answered. “But if you had lived here al...

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