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was false and planned to disprove it by examining the caves; he felt certain
that he would find them as harmless and empty as his parents’ words of cau-
tion. Armed with this knowledge, he might return home and convince his par-
ents that he was mature enough to learn the truth about the world, and to
have his questions treated with respect. If they must tell him stories, he want-
ed only to hear true stories. And stories of monsters weren’t true.

He slipped quietly from his family’s cottage late one evening, darting between
houses and trees, trying not to be seen by other villagers who might order
him back home. Once he cleared the village he had a straight run across a jade
plain that ended about a mile from the edge of the forest. He could no longer
see the sun, but enough light penetrated the tightly-clustered tree trunks to
keep him moving.

He picked his way carefully between trees in the forest. It seemed that every
other trunk was whitened and papery; one fell over when he leaned on it to
catch his breath. Andir remembered stories of the Fallen Lord Shiver killing any
tree she brushed as she and her army marched toward Madrigal. Again he
wondered how true that tale was.

He ripped large strips of
bark off the living trees
to mark his passage and
kept moving towards
the heart of the forest.
By the time he found
the first cave, night had
crept up behind him,
obliterating even the
silhouettes of the trees.
Steeling himself, he
stepped inside and
shuffled forward.

The cave was damp
with a roof that sloped
gently downward to its
end. After ten feet he
had to bend down; after

twenty he had to sit down. He smiled. If there were any beasts in the cave, they
were so small as to be harmless - even to a child. Andir knew that his mother
had concocted a story to keep him out of harm’s way; he could understand
and appreciate her concern but also felt certain that his mother was jumping
at shadows. He had learned the truth and it had not hurt him.