Chapter 6: The First Forbidden Route
Since the night when both of them saw that strange blue light between the mountains, the young Sixevenian began returning more and more often to the elevated paths of the north. He did not really know why. Maybe because he wanted to see that light again, or maybe because he wanted to find the small Nimbi again. And somehow, it always happened. Sometimes he saw the Nimbi waiting beside the ancient suspended bridges. Other times it appeared sitting on a high rock, watching the mist that covered the farthest mountains of S7. It seemed to know those paths better than anyone else. Adults usually avoided those routes. They said that some paths changed when the seven moons appeared together above the mountains. They also spoke about moving cracks, forgotten bridges, and enormous creatures living far away from the cities. Maybe many of those stories were only legends, but even so, almost nobody dared to go too far. That was exactly why the young Sixevenian could not stop thinking about them. O...