A boy with warm, rough hands who smells like summer, he is surprisingly kind and thoughtful.
Everyone knows the Lofties wouldn’t hesitate to shoot an arrow through the back of an unsuspecting Groundling like Fenn, but Peree seems different. Today, that task becomes Fenn's.įenn will have a Lofty Keeper, Peree, as her companion. A Sightless Groundling must brave the Scourge and bring fresh water to the people of the forest. The Sightless, like Fenn, are mysteriously protected from the Scourge, the gruesome creatures roaming the forests, reeking of festering flesh and consuming anything-and anyone-living.
She knows how devious and arrogant the Groundlings' tree-dwelling neighbors, the Lofties, can be.Īnd she's always known this day would come-the day she faces the Scourge alone. She knows how to hide in the cool, damp caves when the Scourge comes.
She knows how the shadows shift when she passes under a canopy of trees. She's never been able to see her lush forest home, but she knows its secrets. Seventeen-year-old Groundling, Fennel, is Sightless.
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