Chapter Nine“The Camp is a series of small settlements in a shallow depression surrounded by gentle hills to the North and South, and a lake and a crevice-like gorge to the West. There is only open Land to the East, all the way to the mountains.”
The peaks were ever present on the horizon, though from this point of the countryside they were nothing more than a dark impression in the distance, a purple smudge that spoke of a boundary. It was more than just a physical barrier to Zya, it was psychological as well. Never had she expected to find such wanton cruelty and blatant subjugation. It did not exist on the far side of the mountains, and she had never dreamed that she would witness such a situation. The tribesman, one of many who had arrived through the night, was called Toem Redwood. H
