The Herd That Carries the World

(InnerSelf Enabled🎭) Everything alive rides the backs of seven beasts the size of mountain ranges, walking an eleven-year circuit across a dead white waste. Forests on their spines. Towns on their shoulders. One law: no war on a Walker's back. The lead beast is stumbling. At the back of the line there's a newborn calf with no owner. Be a rope-runner, a khan's spy, a salt-scavenger, a heart-priest, anyone you like. The whole herd is yours to cross.