Chapter Thirty
THE TRUTH OF THE BERRIES
Huldar gazed out over the prairies of the Eastern Continent, their wide expanse still bare of vegetation. A stiff breeze whistled in his ears. Cumulous clouds piled high above the rim of the horizon – more storms on the way. Dark shadows scudded over the last tenacious snow, yet he could see in his mind’s eye how it would be in a few months’ time, covered in a floral carpet.
He pulled his jacket firmly around him and set off to meet Ubaid. Since he’d found out about the blessings, the bell inside him had tolled continuously and, gift-of-the-planet or no, he wished there was some way he could turn it off.
When he stepped back to their original Central Continent campsite, wisps of steam dissipated skyward from tents still damp from thunderstorms th
