In A Wood On Hermes

Mirkheim, XV.

Ornithoids and buzzbugs, the latter dancing like dustmotes in Maian sunbeams, fly between trees that are mainly stonebark and rainroof, my point being that, if this scene were to be filmed in a Terrestrial forest, then CGI would be necessary to simulate the Hermetian environment. Evading pursuit, Falkayn uses old skills to part resistant shrubs and withes with economical arm and shin movements, Adzel moves with longer strides but cautiously to avoid leaving a trail and Chee Lan leaps between branches. Her home planet, Cynthia, is organized into treetop trade routes, not nation-states. On Hermes, all three beings, including the Hermetian Falkayn, need supplemental rations because native life lacks some vitamins and trace minerals. The forest is on the lower slopes of the Thunderheads. Across the mountain on its eastern side are the Apollo Valley, the Arcadian Hills, the coastal plain, Starfall and the Auroral Ocean. In Chapter II, we read an account of Maia rising out of Daybreak Bay and shining up the Palomino River into Starfall so we have come to feel very familiar with Hermes.