Yeah, this tree definitely hadn't been here when he'd led the last foray into purging the Void from the area. Which meant it was a magic tree. Which meant it might be trouble. Or...
Or it might be a solution.
Tal dropped the Peregrine's ground-anchor in the nearby desert and scrambled down the rope ladder before holding it steady for Alys. He reached out to take her hand when she reached the ground, giving her a lopsided smile as Boreal watched them from the skyboat's crow's nest. They walked into the Suvahasi together, taking care to avoid the poisonous plants that Tal had learned about the hard way last time until they could reach an area beneath the mighty canopy of the massive forest giant where golden seed pods hung low enough to pluck.
"Worth a try at least, yeah?" he said, brows lifting wryly as he grabbed one for himself, and then on impulse tucked it under his other arm and took a second to juggle awkwardly in one hand. "One for th'Barrows an' Meadowreach. An' maybe th' Queen's Gambit, too?" He squeezed his partner's hand and straightened his shoulders, feeling a fresh breath of hope filling his sails.
Or it might be a solution.
Tal dropped the Peregrine's ground-anchor in the nearby desert and scrambled down the rope ladder before holding it steady for Alys. He reached out to take her hand when she reached the ground, giving her a lopsided smile as Boreal watched them from the skyboat's crow's nest. They walked into the Suvahasi together, taking care to avoid the poisonous plants that Tal had learned about the hard way last time until they could reach an area beneath the mighty canopy of the massive forest giant where golden seed pods hung low enough to pluck.
"Worth a try at least, yeah?" he said, brows lifting wryly as he grabbed one for himself, and then on impulse tucked it under his other arm and took a second to juggle awkwardly in one hand. "One for th'Barrows an' Meadowreach. An' maybe th' Queen's Gambit, too?" He squeezed his partner's hand and straightened his shoulders, feeling a fresh breath of hope filling his sails.
