The next day, Undecided, together with an entire posse of Oracles, came to the Empire Council, carrying heavy stacks of paper scrolls. On them were maps with new prophecies about possible avalanche routes.
After these maps were spread on the Council's table, I could see that the avalanches weren't targeting our settlements on purpose, after all. All affected places were near the tall and snowy mountains from which avalanches were likely to fall on their own.
What was unusual was how so many avalanches were provoked at once over hundreds of thousands of kilometres of the mountain range.
But this also became clear on that day, when the Beehound scouts compiled the results of their work into a single report. They drew a map of sightings of the cold-resistant plant, and these sightings were even worse than I feared.
