StoryCanonKerrick learns what Kaolin means by protection when the ground beneath him gives way.
Kaolin's turning from general to statue to Earth Spirit comes as Kerrick heard it on the bluff, with no name for the stryderling or the land that raised the general's monument.
lifts back onto a bluff after its edge collapses beneath the scribe. They had been talking on a verdant highland bluff above a lean corundum mine, Kaolin scratching a baby Archtyrex stryder under its chin and zigzagging a stone with an unseen force for the stryderling to chase. He had been a great general once, memorialized in stone, until the jade coursing through the ground carried the earth's spirit into his statue and woke an awareness beyond it.
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