Leo landed softly in the back garden, a plot of herbs and food plants sustained by the mature, Iron-rank specimens his parents cultivated.
Though the house was no longer theirs, they were still allowed to tend the garden, its yield paying a fraction of the rent and putting food on their table.
Beyond the simple wooden fence, the terrain sloped sharply downwards. Night had already swallowed the view of the enormous plains below.
There were no
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