Later that day they approached the green mounds they had seen spotting the grasslands from afar. Neither Alexia nor Dol Sander had remarked on them, no doubt having been long accustomed in this world to the sight, and so Jay, expecting simply a strange feature of the landscape, kept his mouth closed and simply eyed them curiously. At first he thought it was a trick of the light, or of his vision, or the wind. But it was only when they were closer that he realised with alarm that some of them, very, very slowly, were moving. ‘They’re alive,’ he said in an awe-inspired whisper. ‘Really?’ Alexia
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