Baron was searching for me when I went back to the treehouses from meditating on the edge of the cliff. To be honest, I almost ran away down to the river and walk to the beach Karu was talking about just to check if I could really see the pier there, but I suddenly remembered that I left Baron back at Karu's treehouse.
When I arrived at the clearing where the children were previously playing, he was already there looking for me. "Where have you been?" he asked me looking both excited and bothered.
I told him where I went. "Why? What happened?"
"You wouldn't believe what I just discovered," he told me in high spirits. "I just found out how these people here manage to endure the toxic gas released by the Halosphere!"
"Really? How?"
"Come on, I'll show you." He walked back to one of the
