The seed of the tree of creation.. the words resonated in his mind. But the resonance became an echo of syllables. [i]Surely that isn't the same story as Dad's. But it has to be the same tree.[/i] Leon remembered his father's tale of an old tree in which the roots spread all over creation. When the tree was chopped down by giants who wanted to seed at the peak, the roots decayed but the gaps remained only to fill with the water that made the rivers of the world. 

"Is this land known for giants?" Leon asked in a whisper to the people near him. He was fearful of giants that chopped down the biggest tree in the world. But at the same time he wondered just how crazy he sounded, asking a silly question like that.