The sound of chatter rose over the wind, portraying some life in this barren waste.
In the end, Kua and the other nobles had agreed for a day of rest before they began to move again.
The pillars of bone that populated this stretch of wilderness were rather strange.
He had thought of them all as large pillars rising up to the sky, each one single elevated features with rounded bases, jutting out of the ground like thorns or enormous ribcages.
However, upon closer inspection, only the truly enormous ones looming in the distance were like that. In reality, their forms and shapes were much more varied. Some were singular protrusions, either rounded or jagged, or even both, with flat tops, or sloping crests like teeth, while others were interconnected, forming a complex terrain of ridges that sometimes belted around specific regions to produce large rings.
