When the Moon Comes HomeChapter Archive

The Light in the Furrows

One moonless evening

Oliver and Rose found a silent silver child in their field; it responded to Rose’s gentle approach and seemed drawn to the moonless sky. When it touched an old boundary stone, a carving of a road leading to distant towers briefly appeared, and Oliver promised to follow the overgrown north road with it at dawn. The child’s identity and the meaning of the carving remain unknown.

The Road's Last Stone

The next morning, from dawn until midday

Oliver, Rose, and the silver child followed the north road to a ruined waystation at its end. A wall carving showed people sheltering a figure like the child beneath a full moon, and the child's light revealed a route to a split-topped tower beyond the hills; it recoiled from its own likeness, leaving Oliver with proof of a forgotten connection and no explanation for its distress.

A Road for the Moon

The next day, from the ridge path to nightfall at the tower

Oliver and Rose reached the split-topped tower, where its map and inscription revealed that people had once left a road for the Moon to find its way home. The Moon responded to the map, and Oliver chose to follow its route down to the old settlement of Leth; the child’s distress at the waystation carving and Rose’s growing fatigue remain unresolved.