Chapter 5, Meyers Shepard:
The garden had become a much safer place since Meyers’s crazy younger half-brother, Hayline, took up forced residence in the dungeon. None were admitted to see him. Why his father dug up that insane priestess of Durra’ah still hovered beyond his wildest imagination. All Meyers knew, he could meet Hope in the garden and not worry about being slaughtered in a crazy game of Hayline’s.
He strolled there now, on his way to meet his half-sister, purely by his mother’s prodding. Every time he thought about his mother’s idea (their union), he fought nausea. Even today he carried with him two of the most robust bottles of prickly pitch. It came from his private stash.
If a person waited to pick the prickly fruit at just the right time, it could be turned into prickly w
