Chapter 31

Accashia sat on the bedrock where she could see the view of the vast forest. The sky was clear, and the stars shone and sparkled like diamonds in the night sky. She wondered if the stories told to her when she was young were true. The Village Shaman told them that those pretty little things are balls of fire that burns billions of miles away. And the beauty of the moon was unfathomable as it changes phases every night.

Man’s naked eye would not be able to understand or comprehend its beauty. For in the stars and the sky lives the Gods and Goddesses who bless and curse this land. Accashia looked East at the towering trees of the forest and thought about her family.

But she misses her mother the most. She never got to hear Ember sing that birthday song. The song her mother composed for her on the day of her birth.

Since she had journeyed with Luntian and Calleb, there were nights when she’d dream of her mother. Her touch, her embrace. The way she sings that soft lullaby. The smell of