“Let me help you with that,” Zaron said as he waylaid her as she tried to open the study door. He took the heavy tray and told her the voice command to open the door automatically. He set the tray on a cart the Syn likened to a room service cart in a hotel, but more elaborately designed with inlaid wood of different hues crafted into a pattern of clouds.
“What a lovely cart!”
“It came with the manse several thousand years ago.” Bron stepped up to the cart. “You will notice that the pattern is strictly clouds, no Tierest tree. The Tierest tree has come to symbolize Sarran unity. The crest of the FireClan has a flame at the top of the tree, like the spreading rays of our sun. The cloud is the relic of the members of the AirClan who became extinct during the ClanWars. The clan that fought A
