Sam wouldn't have heard from Eden all day, but this wasn't out of the ordinary. She had given him a quick kiss the night before when she had left him in the meadow and flown away, promising to see him later.
The forest was strangely silent, as if the trees were holding their breath. No birds sang and the air was still.
When he got to the rock face, he would find equipment for rock climbing, hundreds of ropes disappearing up the mountain. They didn't seem like anything the pixies had made and they looked disturbingly human.
