The Shifting Grove Chronicles
Book 1: Call of the Wildborn
Chapter 33: The Living Archive
Thornmere breathed around them.
Liraen led in silence, her steps sure and unhurried as they wound through the heart of Vaelwyn's capital. The paths weren't stone or dirt but roots - interwoven and polished by time, each one alive, pulsing faintly with magic. The trees here didn't just grow. They listened. ...