The Last Hour Glade

Sacred ground where Greenwake wardens come to give their final walk to the wood; sometimes the wood gives an amber answer back as a seed of crystallized hour.

The Greenwake don't announce it as sacred; they just use it, and the trees around it grow a little taller than they should. When a warden who has given everything to the wood walks in here last, something in the soil remembers. The amber seeds that form at the root-line in the weeks after are the Last Green Hour: small, warm, the distillate of a whole life walked green. The Gaunt Ledger has offered money for the glade's coordinates three times. The Cullers haven't given it once.