Chapter 29 - Thane

I pinched the bridge of my nose as a headache set up residence directly behind my right eyeball. "Okay. One more time."

Tove heaved a sigh. "I didn't find anything on Alder Valley other than some housing developments in different states. Apparently, alder trees aren't as poplar." He snickered at his terrible pun.

"The information on druids and the Grove of the Oaks is spotty at best. There are a couple of groups who use that term in their religious practice, but I can't find any of them near here. The only thing I've found that's even close to being about nature and Druidry is The Copse Initiative. The guys who tried to kidnap Hols. They're supposedly a small subsidiary company of a shell company of a bigger company that's all about trying to bring back more trees after all the deforestation done by big business."

"That still makes me sick to my stomach. I might not hold a lot of the values that the Oaks did, but bulldozing forests just to make paper?" Hollyn covered her mouth