Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

by Heather Fawcett

excavate a ribbon from one of his pockets and tie it to a small rock or root. “Does the colour signify anything?” I enquired. “Indeed,” Roland said, and informed me that a red ribbon is used to indicate that the rambler’s path continued straight on along a mostly level plane; white indicates an ascent; blue, a descent. There are also ribbons that represent a change of course in one of the compass directions, as follows: green, west; yellow, north; orange, east; red, south. These signifiers are primarily of use to search parties, should they be needed, but the rambler who became hopelessly lost could also use the ribbons to gain some form of orientation while retracing their steps. There are also textural signifiers: a lace ribbon tied alongside a blue ribbon indicates that the rambler decided to descend to a lower altitude and had met with one of the Folk—again, information that could be of use to rescuers should the rambler fail to return. A coarse muslin ribbon indicates an injury, and so on—I

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