39. The Trek
The Summit. A mountain with three clear sections, even through the snow that bit into my skin.
I huddled close to Kai and Brax as Derik stepped ahead, his feet crunching in the white beneath us. It was windy and horrible, the squeal in the air reminding me of humans screaming.
I shivered and tucked my hands around me, underneath my coats that had made me sweat my ass off the entire carriage ride to the entrance of the Summit.
The entrance had been hidden to me for most of it.
We had ridden in the carriage to the flatlands between Water area and my villages, but to me it had looked the same as usual: a vast, flat grass area stretching up to the dense forest lining our borders and wrapped around to Forest area.
And then there had been a shimmering transparent wave in
