Status Updates From Shine Mountain

'Why are you telling this story?'
'I don't know.'

There is no pine forest on the map!? Good thing they're not using it to find their way.

I don't understand why they have to follow this twisty turny road, when they could go straight across the Flatlands. I guess the book would be way shorter, but I'm fine with that.

"But I'm often wrong" says the fortune reller.

I smell a trap

"When I closed my eyes a flock of doubts came and nested in my chest, and once they were lodged, there was no loosening them."

"The first stars were coming out and I could see them floating on the quiet water."

Oh yes, aging in reverse never stays around for long.

"I never got answers to my questions, not the sort that you could hear, but sometimes I got pictures."

I loving this more every page I turn.

"Then he called for a writing table. Uncle Vern went out the back and levered a plank off the porch."

DIY at its best.