The Redwoods by Ross Turner

Author:Ross Turner [Turner, Ross]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-06-21T23:00:00+00:00

Within the hour they were moving again. They had not eaten. There was nothing to be had, save a few roots dug up from the still barely living earth. And so, on that hardly substantial meal, they made south yet again, desperate to put at least some distance between them and their enemy while it was slowed somewhat by the sun.

The day passed quickly and above them, through the thick covering of trees and branches and leaves, the rocky mountains that Vivian had gazed at as a child, all those years ago, from the safety of Featherstone Keep, loomed above them in all their glory - in all their solitude and mystery. From a distance they had always looked like an endless sea of peaks and ridges, vast greys tipped with white, and even blue and purple streaked across their faces in the right twilight. And now that they were much closer, they were no less magnificent, and their enormity was all that much more apparent.

But even as they marched south still, Vivian could sense something building around her. This was not her understanding of the blackness that she could feel, for that evil was behind them for the moment. No, this feeling was altogether different, and it felt strangely familiar.

She remained silent as they continued. Red seemed lost in thought, whilst Vivian was lost in concentration, straining her hearing, attempting desperately to separate the very quiet and mixed sounds all around her. But she had a feeling that no matter how hard she tried, it would make no difference, for it was not her ears, or even that particular sense, picking up the sounds.

By now Vivian knew it was the Redwoods she was hearing. The last time she had listened for them, opened herself to them, they had remained silent, and since then she had not heard a thing from them. She had thought them too badly injured to speak.

What were they trying to tell her now?

Did they know what was happening?

Did they know how to stop it?

She stopped walking then and Red snapped from his half daze and looked at his Viv questioningly, but he didn’t need to ask what she was doing. The look on her face and the feeling about her was one that he recognised all too well.

And so, regardless of everything that had happened, all that they had lost, and all they were still undoubtedly going to lose, for the Redwoods spoke to him still also, he smiled. Pride swelled through the young, powerful, red bear’s body, as he watched his Vivian open herself to that which had been concealed within her for so long now.

She focused carefully, and the Redwoods spilled their knowledge gladly and freely, entrusting their fate, and indeed the fate of the entire wilderness, yet again, to the only humans they could trust, even if the line was running a little scarce: the Featherstones.

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