Chapter Three
My home is deep within the forest dark.
My playmates are the beaver, the squirrel, and the lark.
My new home is hot but never warm, shady but never cool.
My games are not the ones I knew but now hide a jewel.
I am a shadow now, only a whisper of the goddess's breath.
No one will know me nor even mourn my death.
-Kyia Kossi; Gone
A cheerful sun climbed above the spiked treetops, warming a newborn day. Rhiannon stood on a small rise looking around the hinterland that lay before her. The forest abruptly stopped and gave way to fields, fruit and nut trees and a thick stream flowing merrily over small rocks. A little further away was a large, green meadow that looked as if it were carved right out of the heart of the forest.
She removed Zellan's bridle and saddle and let
