Chapter 9, Zorra Villa:
The wheeled ship made decent time, considering Zorra was forced to deal with the male members of the crew, especially Xorbis, who was having a hard time maintaining a grip on reality.
When Xorbis first confided his tale of the gods to Zorra, she considered him a few sticks short of a bundle. The woman had never been a religious person, but when confronted with the truth about the gods, her natural inclination was to rebel. His recounting of historical events sounded as outlandish as the gospel according to the priestess of the Mother, head of the temple tree on top the pinnacle of Zar. When he told her he was over a thousand years old, she initially assumed he had gone insane long ago.
Then she met the one and only god known to exist. Her worst fears became a rea
