Most predators in The Dark Peak at least have the decency to move. The gosava tree does not, which makes it worse in my estimation — a hunter that turns patience into architecture, blacking out the Wisewood canopy until whatever is below simply stops having options.

Every decade the Dark Peak calendar's weather stem resets to zero, and the pairing that opens the count is treated as an omen for the years ahead. 79.drizzle-flufftail.0.0 — 'drizzle' and flufftail' — provoked genuine jubilation in Hellsborough, and jubilation in Hellsborough always makes me nervous.