Chapter 24

• “I don’t—it’s probably a parking lot now. Isn’t that what humans do? Destroy the natural beauty and pave over it? Slap up a few sky scrappers that block the most spectacular view your eyes could ever see?”
• Trendan couldn’t argue with his words. He’d often questioned the reasoning that the human realm felt the inclination to destroy nature in the name of progress. “I don’t think it’s been paved over, brother, or the seer wouldn’t have seen it.”
• “What does this have to do with anything? How can the river have answers?” His tone had no emotion now. Trendan realized his cold, stiff manner had been a way of protecting himself all these years.