When Selena had mentioned our destination as the Verdant Grove, I'd imagined a small peaceful copse of trees, with a bubbling brook and a flowery meadow humming with bees.
That image couldn't have been more wrong. I stared up in awe as Luxxa helped me from the carriage, following the twisting branches of the largest tree I'd ever seen high into the sky. The trunk itself had to be over five hundred feet in diameter, formed of segmented pieces of trunk that entwined together, forming a veritable tower of wood. The bark was a dark, glossy brown, like stained glass, while the leaves shimmered like Borealis's feathers. They rustled with the tinkling of glass and bells. A leaf the length of my arm fluttered on the breeze, evaporating from the moment it left the branch into flurries of green light that faded before it hit the ground.
"It's beautiful, right?" R'lissea said, hopping out of the carriage behind us.
