CHAPTER TEN
The rest of the journey was blissfully uneventful though longer than I expected. We didn’t land until the afternoon when we found ourselves still in the huge forest. I wondered if the whole of the land realm was woods dotted with water and meadows.
However, there were the mountains that towered above us. I guessed they were the same ones I had noticed from afar in the turtle clan area. They now loomed over us in all their craggy glory, monsters of some ancient upheaval that had been going on even before Eastwei had come into existence. Maybe.
We landed in a small clearing at the foothills of those imposing giants where a small cabin lay nestled against the stony toes. The home had been built from local logs and the chimney rocks were the same color as the ones that pok
