After failing to best a lion in the trial to become a Brother of the Lion, Huw was condemned to a life among a lion pride that wanders The Devil’s Fingers and the Singing Wastes.
Last year, in the pride’s migration, he discovered the Cactogre’s Canyon (18.28), where the Cactogre lived with his nymph lover. Huw romanced the nymph, and within a week, they eloped.
The nymph began insisting they settle somewhere. They live by a spring-fed pool at the foot of a nameless mountain (13.24). Huw spends his days hunting mountain goats and antelope with stone-tipped spears while his lover tends a pomegranate orchard. She enchants the pomegranates to grant various boons, including healing wounds and improving the body and mind.
However, they rightly suspect that trouble is brewing.
Hooks
- Tell me more about the enchanted pomegranates.