It’s #BookQW and Cor will need to work ‘hard’.
More from Chapter 16:
Lady Pina harrumphed again, her steely hazel eyes locked on Cor. “I cannot say I like the methods you chose to continue putting yourself in my sights, but it has brought you into favorable circumstances with Mimosa, and I do listen to her. She makes the logical argument that her habitat is brimming with wizards—three fully trained, one on the brink and three more in the wings. Four, if your ability to work with her lad is as promising as she hopes.”
He’d thought she was listing Lady Mimosa’s staff until the last bit about Kory. This list was her family, and his audience with Lady Pina was a result of his casual gift to a little kid. What were the odds? His mother had always told him and his sister to be kind, but he’d never seen a payoff like this one…might be. Giving a slight nod, he kept his gaze on Lady Pina.
“I, on the other hand, am alone in caring for the Pines and, as everyone deigns to point out, stretched thin as I funnel energy to accommodate our shielding needs while also seeing to the issues that time and natural causes bring to our individual trees.” She flipped a hand at the gaping cavity in the tree.
“Yet I cannot waste my energy training someone who will take me away from these duties, so I give you one week to meet my requirements. One, I expect hard work. This is not a glamorous position among a unique species that you tout to the Windborne world. It is a job.”
That’s what I want, a job. His heart began to race with excitement…
“Two, you master the traditional method of energy transfer that my Windborne ancestors have used to harmonize with the vast energy of these living creatures.”
She was referring to the trees, right?
“Energy Song.”
His stomach dropped, and he asked before thinking, “Sing to the trees?”
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On a personal note:
Keeping up with everything is ‘hard’! I’ve been missing social postings becasue we took more time to travel, this time for hiking in the Aspen area. I hate to say it, but the shrubs and ground-level plants were more colorful than the aspen trees. It’s been a dry summer and the trees suffered. That said, here are a few of my favorite fall colors!
The view west from just below Independence Pass.
Aspen grove understory of fireweed, rue, asters and geranium.
Geranium leaf.
Hiking through thimbleberry bushes.
Roaring Fork near Ashford, Colorado
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