Without a guide or a map, however, those who enter the labyrinth uninvited are unlikely to survive for very long. The only means of entry for the non-winged is a labyrinth, accessible from ground level via a secret door in the cliff face. Scrabbling up the vertical cliffs surrounding the settlement is, for all practical purposes, impossible. Life is much better atop the Fog Mound and so it presents a tempting target for any would-be conquerors or looters who might learn of its existence. The lands surrounding the Fog Mound are also inhabited by talking animals but they have regressed and appear to be hunter-gatherers, like the inhabitants of the Untamed Forest, or scavengers subsisting on humanity’s leftovers, like the tinned-food-consuming residents of the City of Ruins. The Fog Mound trilogy takes its name from the Fog Mound, a plateau-crowning citadel of talking animals that exists as an oasis of civilization on a seemingly Homo-sapiens-free, post-apocalyptic Earth. taking deep sniffs from caramel sauce samples.Īt one pivotal point in the story, the protagonists’ very survival hinges on avoiding areas in which the air is saturated with the aroma of caramel. Last Sunday, in one of the classes in which we’ve been reading Susan Schade and Jon Buller’s Travels of Thelonious, we provided each student with two sealed cups containing absorbent paper chads to which we had applied one of two fragrant liquids: peppermint essence or caramel sauce.
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