“The lizard people said the people who grow it call it mango,” Jamin said. “It grows in trees so tall they can almost touch the sky.”
“Have you seen these trees?” Marwan asked.
“Not yet,” Jamin said, “but the lizard people have shown me many wondrous things, including pictures of these trees. They have sent me with a talisman so that I may show you as well.”
He pulled out the little tek-no-lo-gee and touched the screen. Aturdokht gasped as the tablet came to life and on the magic window appeared a picture of a dark-skinned teenager climbing a tree so large his arms could barely fit around the trunk. Trees were rare in this land where scant water condemned most to never grow larger than a shrub, but they had heard of such trees from traders. He handed the device to Aturdokht, relishing t
