Chapter One

The path was overgrown with weeds, making it hard to navigate through the twists and turns on the mountain. Nearby, a bird sang a lonely song as the stream bubbled its own tune. The quest seemed to be impossible. Three stones? How would she ever find three stones to heal her father? But she must. He was the last of her kind that possessed enough power and knowledge to use the stones. Without the stones, without her father, the remaining people in her village would cease to exist.