Chapter Five
Helewise loaded her baskets as heavily with glass jars as she was able to bear, and set forth to market. She packed the delicate containers in straw, the better to preserve their precious contents, and walked as slowly and as carefully as she could contrive. In spite of her efforts, the jars sometimes fell against one another with an unpromising clink and she winced, petrified that one might break and waste the strange, beautiful treasure housed within.
She could not have said why it seemed of such paramount importance to her, to preserve every drop of the honey. Perhaps because the production of it had engulfed all of the town, as though nothing Berrie contained was of such significance as the starflowers and the bees and the sweet, sticky, starlit substance the two togethe
