The real reason for our interest is that the pollen from a Silverwood tree allows my race to become fertile, able to bear children.” Dale was shocked. This was not the direction he had foreseen this conversation taking. Brianna laughed at his stricken look. “Oh, don’t get me wrong, sometimes we get lucky, and a child is born without it—maybe one in five hundred couples is so lucky. But a Silverwood tree allows all of those couples given access to become fertile, which is why they are so well-protected when found. Without it, we would become extinct.”
