Chapter eighteen
Wanmoon + Zephur + SequentHana looks angrily down at the stones. My people have become stiff-necked fools! I cannot help them anymore. Now comes the time for reaping.
She sits in silence, as her tears fall unchecked. O, my little ones. That you should have to suffer in this way...
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It was only as they camped together in the valley below Bryn Mirain, where Poppy had had her dream about Huw, that an unhappy thought occurred to Katkin — Arkady might not even be able to enter the hidden meeting grounds of the Firaithi with her. After all, Hana had cast some veil of invisibility over the entrance to the dell, and who knew whether they would be able to pass through it together, since Arkady was not of the Kindreds.
Apprehensively, she asked him about it. He replied,
