When you visit our website, if you give your consent, we will use cookies to allow us to collect data for aggregated statistics to improve our service and remember your choice for future visits. Cookie Policy & Privacy Policy
Dear Reader, we use the permissions associated with cookies to keep our website running smoothly and to provide you with personalized content that better meets your needs and ensure the best reading experience. At any time, you can change your permissions for the cookie settings below.
If you would like to learn more about our Cookie, you can click on Privacy Policy.
It was fully dark by the time I climbed the steep hill that I was certain had been the one Valki had pointed out to me. I could see stony protrusions jutting through the grass around me, other family barrows built into the hill itself. I didn"t know if there were any sort of hierarchy of families I was strolling through, unaware. But there was only one that stood alone, like a beehive built of stone atop the hill. All the others were out of sight, overgrown by the spring grasses. Even this one didn"t look like it saw many visitors. I had to push the dried remains of last year"s grass out of the doorway before I could get inside. I was instantly grateful I had put my flashlight in my art bag after giving up my hunt for the older ancestral fire. I found it by touch, then shined it around t