Chapter 23
Jabari and the other seekers ran for six nights, stopping just before dawn each day to make camp where they could find shelter in small groves of trees or beside buildings. They found springs all along the way, small pools of crystal clear water that nearly glowed with the magic of the World Whisperer.
They hunted in the early morning, eating rabbit, snake, lizard, and edible cactus that Gavi carved and salted, until it was a salad worthy of a palace table, or so Jabari thought. He had to tie his pants a little tighter though. They didn't get huge amounts of food to eat and all the running was beginning to show.
On the sixth night, the landscape changed. There were losh trees in the spaces between cacti, and then the trees moved closer together and became groves, and then eve
